Warp spake:

> Stefan Viljoen <spamnot@ <removethis>polard.com> wrote:
>> Tsk tsk Warp... he did ask, didn't he? And, as far as I know, 3.7 is not
>> yet available for Linux?
> 
>   But what I am thinking is that the "manual parallelization" of pov3.6 is
> not only a real memory hog (rendering takes as much memory as many
> instances of POV-Ray you run) but is also quite cumbersome and difficult,
> requiring third-party tools and whatnot.

You are absolutely correct, of course.

> I was thinking that instead of 
> teaching him the really hard way of doing it, the better way would be to
> wait for pov3.7 which automatically uses all the available processors in
> the computer without the user having to do anything special to achieve
> that, and additionally POV-Ray will not take basically any extra memory
> because of that.

Which now is his choice - he is not forced to wait for 3.7 to utilise his
hardware / prospective hardware for parallel rendering, and can start
fiddling with it immediately, with a current Linux / Unix version of POV. 

Of course 3.7 will be the ideal! Any idea when the Linux version will be
released?

Kind regards,
-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions

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