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7 Aug 2024 07:14:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Feature idea: Compile to data file option  
From: Francois Dispot
Date: 19 Oct 2001 16:37:28
Message: <3BD08F07.731258E8@club-internet.fr>
Ze!nPs### [at] yahoocom wrote:

> This is probably a really old idea, but one which I'd like to see cos
> it'd make big renders much easier to do across multiple computers.

IIRC, this is what the IMP people did, using tar format.
As for distributed rendering, remember that POV uses more than just FPU
cycles, especially memory.
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