>> If you converted POV to run on the GPU then it would take a huge amount 
>> of work and would no longer be as portable as it is today.
>
> But would be much faster!  Take a look here:

Sure, but there simply aren't the people willing to do the work for free. 
Look how long it's taken from 3.6 to 3.7 beta, what hope is there of a 
complete rewrite for the GPU before 2020?

> it's an experimental and limited port of the open-source unbiased renderer 
> Luxrender to OpenCL.

From my very limited knowledge of OpenCL it seems like POV would need to be 
rewritten from scratch to use it.

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