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  Re: Increasing calculation depth with the mandel pattern?  
From: Warp
Date: 18 Mar 2010 20:31:38
Message: <4ba2c5ea@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Hmm...have a render argument flag as to whether to use 
> arbitrary-precision or not?

  In order for the double-version not to suffer any speed overhead, you
would basically have to have two different versions of POV-Ray, one using
double and the other using multiple-precision floating point. So you could
just as well have to separate binaries. No need for a flag.

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                                                          - Warp


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