Hi Warp,

Thats good news!

I guess it was high time for that, as 2005 is the year of the "Double 
CPU's".
Do you know more Details if its "only" for SMP-Systems or also about 
"Network-Rendering" ?

--Theo


"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:42832fb4@news.povray.org...
>  Are you aware that the soon-to-come POV-Ray 3.7 will support SMP
> all by itself?
>  The greatest advantage of it is that rendering in multiple threads
> will not consume more memory than rendering in a single thread. (Of
> course other advantages include the fact that since it supports
> multiple threads "natively" it's handier because you don't need to
> hassle with external scripts).
>
>  In your case if the scene takes 1 gigabyte of memory, rendering with
> two processes will require 2 gigabytes of memory.
>
> -- 
>                                                          - Warp

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