POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Photon counting : Re: Photon counting Server Time
26 Jun 2024 12:36:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Photon counting  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 6 Jan 2011 14:31:17
Message: <4d261885@news.povray.org>
On 6/01/2011 19:27, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> is it a multi-threaded process (logic seems to dictate that it would be)
> 
> If so, I think there's a slight bug (Very minor issue) in the reporting because
> on my dual-core machine it seems to be reporting two different values
> alternately.
> 
> My almost non-existent knowledge of parallel processing is giving me the notion
> that each thread is printing separately.

Close: what is in fact happening is each thread is sending its own stats to
the front-end code separately (we have a message-passing system); the issue
with separate counts is known and will be resolved prior to final release.

-- Chris


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