"Michael Brown" <emb### [at] i4freeDELETETHISconz> wrote in message
news:3a715049@news.povray.org...
> Hi there,
>
> Just wondering if Povray supports 3DNow (plain vanilla K6-2 and/or
extended
> Athlon), and if not if it plans to support it in the future.
>

Is 3DNow relevant to POV? I may have misunderstood, but I thought it just
increased the speed of 3d graphics and multi-media, and would therefore have
no effect on rendering. That said, 3DNow does, I believe, speed up floating
point calculations.

Question: If 3DNow speeds up float calcs, why is it only of benefit to
graphics and not all apps. using floating point calcs.?

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