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  Re: You know you've been tracing too long when...  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 18 Mar 2008 05:42:02
Message: <47df9c7a$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   In pov3.7, because of the distributed rendering, things have changed
> a bit: There are no individual scanlines anylonger. I don't really know
> if the entire image is now kept in memory (when there's no preview) or not.
> Chris or Thorsten would be much more qualified to answer this.

When watching the 3.7 preview, you can see that the image is rendered in 
tiles; it appears as though each thread takes the next tile on the 
current line when it's finished. Perhaps this is all that is kept in memory.


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