clipka wrote:

> Note how the scene already takes significantly longer to parse, which
> should normally not happen if all that's changed is the camera position;
> this shows how I/O performance is already degrading.
> 
> Which reminds me that there still /is/ something worth trying: One thing
> that competes with swapping for I/O bandwidth is the writing of the pov
> state file, which is essentially a log of rendering progress that would
> be used if you abort a render and continue it later using the +C option.
> The newest development version of POV-Ray 3.7 has an option to disable
> creation of that file ("-CC"), which would leave more I/O bandwidth for
> swapping.
> 
LOL

Guess who asked for that option :)



> Currently there is no Windows build of that version, but the newest
> UberPOV beta (1.37.0.0-beta.4) also has it.

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Ger

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