POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Photon counting : Re: Photon counting Server Time
26 Jun 2024 12:37:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Photon counting  
From: Warp
Date: 6 Jan 2011 10:07:21
Message: <4d25daa9@news.povray.org>
Le_Forgeron <lef### [at] freefr> wrote:
> Two threads updating the same counter would need a mutex to protect the
> counter, defeating the purpose of multi-threading (well, the mutex would
> become the bottleneck).

  If the count is updated infrequently (eg. once per second) it shouldn't
make any difference.

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                                                          - Warp


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