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  Re: Resuming renders in 3.7 RC6 is confusing at best, broken at worst  
From: Stephen
Date: 25 Aug 2012 05:09:53
Message: <50389661$1@news.povray.org>
On 23/08/2012 7:45 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> (There is no perfect value: too small gives a large overhead of message
> with fine granularity, too large gives less overhead but coarser
> granularity with numerous cores. Choose your own balance: if it please
> you, it's the right value)

Normally I go with the default block size but if I end up waiting for 
the last block to finish I will change subsequent renders.
I did some quick tests on random scenes and confirmed that you are 
right, lowering the block size can increase the time taken.


-- 
Regards
     Stephen


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