Am 05.07.2013 09:28, schrieb Ger Remmers:

> I have not tested, nor will I, all the claims that have been made here,
> but one thing that I have noticed is that povray 3.7 takes longer to
> store an image once it's done rendering it. I assume it's because of the
> pov-state file which, in my case, is stored on a server.

It might actually be the time POV-Ray needs to clean up the pov-state 
file. It can be pretty bad on Windows systems.

Again on Windows systems, there's also a known problem when the image is 
too simple: The thread responsible for assembling the image from the 
rendered chunks may become swamped with finished chunks, and may still 
be busy processing them all long after the render threads have already 
done their job. With large images, this can even lead to the paradox 
situation that the simpler the scene gets the more physical memory is 
eaten up during the render. (Fortunately, if this maxes out physical 
memory it only bogs down the POV-Ray thread, and doesn't throw the 
entire system into swap hell like it would happen in other situations.)

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