POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Calculating CPU work : Re: Calculating CPU work Server Time
16 May 2024 04:52:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Calculating CPU work  
From: Doctor John
Date: 29 Sep 2014 13:45:48
Message: <54299acc$1@news.povray.org>
On 29/09/14 16:31, cloudyroo wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone (up to and including developers) knew any way to work
> out how much CPU work/time would be needed to render an image based on its size
> and render options. It seems like it must be possible to find out.
> Thanks,
> Ross
> 
> 

I strongly suspect that calculating render time would take as long as
the render itself - see Alan Turing's work for further details'

I'm sorry if that seems glib but I can't think of a better authority atm

Joh
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