POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.msdos : Trace timer problem : Re: Trace timer problem Server Time
29 Apr 2024 11:44:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Trace timer problem  
From: Peter Popov
Date: 21 Nov 1999 20:00:32
Message: <Z5U4OIb1STONjeTqFIZuyfjcymQ6@4ax.com>
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:54:54 +1000, "Chris Colefax"
<cco### [at] geocitiescom> wrote:

>Peter Popov <pet### [at] usanet> wrote:
>> Can you confirm this? Do you have access to a DOS box? Is it a bug and
>> if yes, is it documented?
>
>Yes, if the scene requires very little parsing then only the render time
>is shown.  In fact, if the scene requires less than a second of
>rendering then this isn't shown either!   For animations, however, this
>seems to be taken into account fine when calculating the average parsing
>and rendering speed, and I wouldn't say I think of this as 'buggy'
>behaviour myself.

Thanks, Chris. I am glad it's actually a well-thought feature rather
than a bug. It makes sense, too.


Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700


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