POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : 3.7 SMP documentation : Re: 3.7 SMP documentation Server Time
28 Jul 2024 12:30:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3.7 SMP documentation  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 24 Feb 2009 16:13:09
Message: <49a462e5@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> I'm not into details on photon shooting, but it seems to me that each
> thread will simply do a separate photon pass, just shooting less photons.

In the current implementation (afaik!), each thread shoots photons from a
different light source. If you have only one light, you won't take
advantage of multiple cores while photon-shooting.


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