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  Re: Cellphone ray-tracing?  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 20 Apr 2010 23:02:53
Message: <4bce6add$1@news.povray.org>
Nekar Xenos wrote:
> I recently found out that my LG KS360 supposedly has a 400MHz proccessor.
> IIRC I used to run Pov-Ray 3.1 on a 333Mhz machine in 1997. My cellphone
> is a lot slower than the 33MHz Celeron I had to work on back then, so I
> guess the culprit is RAM. Which brings me to the question: Do Cell-phones
> have RAM? If so, how can I tell how much?
> 
> Would it be possible to make a simple .jar ray-tracer to run on a
> cell-phone?

I tried porting POV-Ray to the iPhone, but had troubles with C++ exceptions, 
and lack of a debugger to figure out those troubles. But that was in 1.x 
times, when official dev tools didn't even exist. I should try again on a 
newer firmware some day...


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