POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : POV-Ray for Windows version 3.7 beta 1 available : Re: POV-Ray for Windows version 3.7 beta 1 available Server Time
25 Apr 2024 11:54:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray for Windows version 3.7 beta 1 available  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 16 Apr 2005 18:34:54
Message: <4261930e$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> and it rendered it ok. However, I noticed in the end stats that it
> seemingly was using 4 threads ("on 4 CPU(S) with 32 CPU-seconds total").
> 
>   Does it try to detect the number of CPUs or is 4 some kind of default?

The Windows version detects the number of processors Windows reports and 
asks for twice as many threads.  Apparently two threads per (virtual) CPU 
gives better performance than just one at least on Windows.

	Thorsten


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