On Wed, 5 May 1999 09:57:04 -0500, "Ed Downing"
<dow### [at] spamlessgtenet> wrote:

>Has anyone heard if the POVRAY team is going to release a version with the
>SSE or 3DNow instruction sets enabled?

  Ed, in keeping with a portable rendering engine code, POV-Ray
doesn't include enhancements to a specific processor. Any enhancements
for a cpu have to come with the compiler used for each operating
system. This is not to say that these things *couldn't* be written,
just that the resulting code would no longer be truly cross-platform,
negating one of the main objectives of the POV-Team.
-- 
Alan
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