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30 Jul 2024 12:20:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: beta 3.7 multicore feature automatic or requires code?  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 1 Feb 2009 04:35:54
Message: <49856cfa$1@news.povray.org>
"societyofrobots" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht 
news:web.498555dac9e4fdf0e977d74a0@news.povray.org...
>I have a dual core so I'm very much interested in speeding up my POV-Ray
> processing using the new beta.
>
> Is it automatically handled in the background, meaning v3.6 code will see 
> a
> speed up if run in v3.7? Or do I need to modify the code first to take
> advantage of the feature?
>
> All I see on the beta page is:
> "This version uses multi-threaded rendering by default."
> "You can render in only one thread by using the '/THREADS 1' switch in the
> Windows version."
>
> Got any benchmarks?
>
>

Just make sure that your code has

#version 3.7;

and all will be well.

Thomas


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