POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Calculating CPU work : Re: Calculating CPU work Server Time
16 May 2024 08:53:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Calculating CPU work  
From: clipka
Date: 29 Sep 2014 13:59:54
Message: <54299e1a$1@news.povray.org>
Am 29.09.2014 19:45, schrieb Doctor John:
> 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'

Absolutely.

A guesstimate can be made based on a smaller render of the image, but 
that's about it.


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