POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Suggestion: OpenCL : Re: Suggestion: OpenCL Server Time
5 Sep 2024 17:20:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Suggestion: OpenCL  
From: clipka
Date: 14 Aug 2009 21:13:35
Message: <4a860bbf$1@news.povray.org>
Saul Luizaga schrieb:
> Well instead of groaning you can make a small .txt file in your PC: 
> "Alrady discussed, conclusions were:
> 1)....
> 2)...
> 3)..."
> or something like that, to avoid frustration and redundancy.

What, and have it clutter my hard disk, and three months later when it's 
really needed I don't remember where I put it?

Furthermore, as is just being demonstrated, people don't take the 
explanations and leave it be, but start discussions about it. Or they 
don't understand the explanations and ask. Or...


> I don't think my ideas are revolutionary, nor new, nor ingenious, I'm 
> just suggesting something that MAY or MAY NOT have not been discussed 
> before.

Next time you're in that situation, you might as well /check/ if it has 
been discussed before.

> Also I assume everyone here knows more than me, including the 
> POV/TAG-Team, so this is more of a hint than a suggestion. Sometimes 
> smart people forget about simple things.

Reread your original post. It doesn't sound like what you describe now.


> I see, I know POV-Ray source code is HUGE and any minor changes 
> represent big efforts.

Not really. Major changes represent major efforts. As of now, GPU 
support would be a more-than-major effort.

/Some/ changes that look like minor ones do require big efforts due to 
how the internal structure happens to be. Others appear like a major one 
  but are actually a piece of cake to implement.


> Maybe there is a use for it, not as another main processor but as 
> secondary one. I posted about it in another post.

Maybe it's worth reconsidering in a year or so.


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