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  Re: beta: parallelizing BSP-building possible?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 24 Feb 2008 09:17:53
Message: <47c17c91$1@news.povray.org>
Lukas Winter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had a quick look at the beta source, even though I can't compile it on 
> my Linux machine, and wondered, whether the code for building the BSP-
> tree could be parallelized. As far as I understand the code, building the 
> left and the right cell of a node simultaneously would be safe (perhaps 
> the parametre "BBOX& cell" is a minor problem).
> My idea is to create a pool of worker threads. Instead of recursing by 
> simply calling

You cannot predict the depth of any subtree, which makes it rather expensive.

	Thorsten


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