clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> While you're right in theory, practice mandates otherwise. MS Windows 
> (at least XP with default configuration) is still rather poor at dealing 
> with process priorities; setting POV-Ray's process priority low may 
> reduce the total time spent on rendering, but it doesn't seem to improve 
> system responsiveness much. I guess Windows uses comparatively long time 
> slices, and refuses to cut them short when a higher-priority process 
> becomes ready.

  If that's so, then why would it help of POV-Ray attempted to set this
priority itself?

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