POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Render Priority : Re: Render Priority Server Time
2 Jul 2024 10:23:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Render Priority  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 9 May 2010 06:04:44
Message: <4be688bc@news.povray.org>
On 09.05.10 11:58, clipka wrote:
>> I think this is because the render priority and multi-threaded rendering
>> kind of logically conflict with each other. Having multiple threads and
>> using only part of the CPU is, while not mutually exclusive, not really
>> sensible.
>>
>> Maybe reducing the number of threads would be sufficient for your
>> purposes?
>
> Hm... what happens if someone only has a single-core CPU? (Yeah, poor
> sod, but still - POV-Ray 3.7 should be able to deal with this I think.)

Yes, of course, but that problem should solve itself quickly ... few of 
those CPUs are able to run a recent Windows _and_ still have resources to 
spare for POV-Ray :-)  Of course, your point still remains a valid argument 
for a few more years.

	Thorsten


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