POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : POVRay thesis : Re: POVRay thesis Server Time
6 May 2024 10:03:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POVRay thesis  
From: Warp
Date: 4 Nov 2005 10:20:00
Message: <436b7c1f@news.povray.org>
Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> or find a way to adapt 3.6 to work with multiple processors.

  There are only two options for this:

  Run multiple copies of povray (like all multiprocessing patches for 3.6 do).
Disadvantage: Rendering will consume n times as much memory for n processes
than it does for 1 process (meaning that if 1 process requires 1 GB of
memory, 12 processes will require 12 GB).

  Replicate what has been done for 3.7. Disadvantage: An incredible amount
of work and completely useless (because it is being done anyways).

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                                                          - Warp


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