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  Re: MultiThreaded version of PovRay 3.5  
From: Jan Walzer
Date: 12 Aug 2002 02:13:25
Message: <3d575205@news.povray.org>
nope ...

DX9 is completely programmable ...
you could theoretically send some "mini-programs" to the DX9-chip
and run them there...

the only question is, if this is really faster, because the
comunication overhead could make this worse.
OTOH ATis Radeon9700 has several parallel (IIRC 6-8) such pipelines,
so if all the data needed fits in the memory of the card and the "processors"
support all the needed operations it could be a nice idea ...

But to be honest: I don't believe that this is worth for POV, because the code will
become a mess


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