POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Radiosity and SMP : Re: Radiosity and SMP Server Time
5 Oct 2024 15:26:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity and SMP  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 8 Apr 2009 01:14:55
Message: <49dc32cf@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> - The crackle cache is global to all threads IIUC, so heavy crackle use may
> cause stalls as threads compete for access

At the moment it's per-thread. Making it global to all threads is something I
have stated I want to do if it's possible without too much performance impact on
updates, since getting good results from it requires a fair chunk of RAM
per-thread - thus for high thread counts will chew a lot of main memory (as well
as reduce CPU cache effectiveness since the data is basically duplicated).

-- Chris


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