I think that I was the one who coined "render time  decay".  Things became
horribly slower as I proceeded in frames in an animation of running blob "metal
men."

I also showed how upgrading my CPU and memory gave something like a 10X boost
to rendering in BRYCE; but barely a 2.5X boost to rendering in povray.   I
asked a dumb question then, and I will repeat it now:

Is there a way to make povray more RAM-intensive?



Martin Crisp wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:35 AM, Martin Crisp
> <mailto:Spa### [at] tesseractcomau> wrote:
> >Cliff Bowman wrote in message <377b93bf.459452@news.povray.org>...
> >>On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 10:56:47 +1000, "Martin Crisp"
> >><Spa### [at] tesseractcomau> wrote:
>
> Bringing the time-honoured usenet tradition of following-up to your own
> posts to POV-Ray...
>
> [snip]
>
> >>IMHO it sounds like the Mac you're using has enough similarities to
> >>Windoze to suffer some similar problems. I'd imagine that there's some
> >>grabage management/memory management that's suffering slowdown
> >because
> >>POV isn't releasing enough CPU power to the OS. If I'm roughly right
> >
> >Hmm, no offence but I doubt it (but I'll fiddle over the weekend and
> >followup if I find anything). When I say other apps:
>
> As noted in a reply to Thorsten (in the first thread that eventually showed
> up...)..
>
> looks like it's having the preview window open in the mac client that
> causes the render-time dilation.
>
> [snip]
>
> >Thanks for the comment, will advise if I can narrow down an 'optimum'...
>
> Which is why I followed-up.
>
> Have Fun
> Martin
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