Meothuru <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> >   I assume that means that rendering the scene takes 16 times as much
> > memory as usual?

> May be on Windows...but not on LINUX.
> I never have seen more than 1.5 GB RAM in usage (AFAIR running 32 task)

  Well, if rendering a particular scene with one instance of POV-Ray
requires 44 MB of memory, rendering with 32 instances requires 1.5 GB.
It's not a question of how much the total memory usage is, but how much
it is compared to running only one instance.
  POV-Ray 3.7 can render that same scene using 32 threads and it will
only require the 44 MB of memory.

  Or are you saying that you can run 32 instances of POV-Ray 3.6 without
it requiring 32 times as much memory as running 1 instance? Exactly how
does it achieve that feat?

> >   Isn't this kind of obsolete, as the new POV-Ray 3.7 supports parallel
> > rendering (and without taking any additional memory for that)?

> No it isn't.

  What does it do that POV-Ray 3.7 doesn't (besides consuming more memory)?

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