POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Calculating CPU work : Re: Calculating CPU work Server Time
16 May 2024 00:04:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Calculating CPU work  
From: Doctor John
Date: 30 Sep 2014 07:49:39
Message: <542a98d3$1@news.povray.org>
On 29/09/14 18:45, Doctor John wrote:
> 
> 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

I've just remembered an even better authority: Knuth, The Art Of
Computer Programming. IIRC Volume 1 deals with run-time.

John
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