Christoph Hormann wrote:

> Tek wrote:
>> 
> But much more important is that there is no way to implement
> multithreading in a portable manner - not even for the three 'official'
> platforms.  So if you want to attempt implementing such a system (which
> would be pretty hard on the current POV-Ray source anyway) you would
> have to implement several platform specific variants.
> 
Yes but it should be possible to find a portable interface for all the OSes. 
It's like there are 3 different graphical interfaces (Mac, Windows, X11). 
That should be possible for threads, too. At least Apache-2 can do it IIRC. 

I think, one could consider designing POVRay-4 in a way to allow for that. 

Wolfgang

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