POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Multitasking : Re: Multitasking Server Time
7 Sep 2024 07:23:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Multitasking  
From: Alain
Date: 18 Sep 2008 22:55:08
Message: <48d3148c$1@news.povray.org>
andrel nous illumina en ce 2008-09-18 19:31 -->
> On 18-Sep-08 16:26, Invisible wrote:
>> Gail wrote:
>>
>>> I had a copy yesterday (copying from a shadow copy 'previous 
>>> version'), that said it would take 65782 years to complete. I went to 
>>> get coffee and it was done by the time I got back.
>>
>> LOL!
>>
>> That's just *advanced*! I've never seen it get it quite that wrong...
> 
> I did, even negative times. It happens when people count the number of 
> bytes to copy in 32 bit integers, or something like that.
Or take the time it took for a single, huge, file, and multiply that by the 
number of files left to process, with an average size of less than 10K...

-- 
Alain
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