POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : New video cards may offload POV : Re: New video cards may offload POV Server Time
11 Aug 2024 17:13:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New video cards may offload POV  
From: Nieminen Mika
Date: 26 Jul 1999 02:47:58
Message: <379c049e@news.povray.org>
As others have stated, povray will probably never benefit from this card.

  Moreover, the official povray will probably _never_ benefit from _any_
card (as long as compilers can't optimize code for them). Povray is intended
to be portable. This means that it has to be compilable in any standard
compiler.
  The only way povray could benefit from an acceleration card would be:
a) if the compiler can automatically create optimized code for that specific
card, or b) if you create your own custom compile with inline assembler
optimizations (which is not portable anymore).
  AFAIK, no such graphics cards exist nowadays. The 3D graphics cards used
nowadays are pretty useless to povray even if you wanted to optimize it for
them.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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