scott wrote:
>>> 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?
> 

I finally got some free time. CUDA and OpenCL are both on my 'to learn'
list. POV-Ray seems like a good code base to start from, once I get my
brain back around parallel processing. So, that is at least one more
person available to work for free.

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