POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.programming: POV Ray execution speed is faster than the processor?: Re: POV Ray execution speed is faster than the processor?

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From: Warp
Date: 31 Oct 2011 12:06:29
Message: <4eaec784@news.povray.org>

rf242 <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I am not a computer scientist so maybe I am mistaking something about processor
> architecture.

  No, you are not mistaken about the processor. You are mistaken about the
raytracing algorithm. POV-Ray does not test each triangle for each pixel.
It only tests a small subset of all the triangles.

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                                                          - Warp

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