POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Low Memory Footprint : Re: Low Memory Footprint Server Time
30 Jul 2024 18:14:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Low Memory Footprint  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 5 Aug 2008 18:33:19
Message: <4898d52f@news.povray.org>
ChamanSingh wrote:
> I have very large triangulated surface mesh and it seems that PovRay
> allocate large memory during calculation. Isn't ray tracing is an
> embarassingly parallel procedure ? Therefore, I was wondering if it
> is possible to have low memory footprint version of PovRay where
> performance is not the most important criteria.

If you don't have too much RAM, but performance isn't important, just let it
swap to disk like crazy :)


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