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1 Jun 2024 06:53:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Intel SSE2 noise optimizations in POV 3.6  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 29 Apr 2006 15:57:17
Message: <4453c51d$1@news.povray.org>
Micha Riser wrote:
  > Another thing that comes to my mind: The noise calculation is done in double
> precision. If it were done in single precision only it could be better
> parallized with SIMD. Do you know if this has been tried yet? Is it know
> that single precision is not precise enough?

Oh, the code of course continues to work. But the differences are very visible.

	Thorsten


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