On 1 Mar 2000 16:49:28 -0500, ron### [at] povrayorg (Ron Parker)
wrote:

>On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:09:46 +0100, Karl Pelzer wrote:
>
>>But honestly I'm not satisfied yet. 
>
>THERE IS NO MULTITHREADED VERSION OF POV-RAY.  PERIOD.  

Gee, these keyboards are getting crappier every day. Ron's caps lock
key got stuck, and the darn thing isn't even three months old. 

>If you really must know why, go read one of the dozens of threads over in
>povray.programming, or even in this very group, that cover that topic in
>excruciating detail.  The short version, though, is that coding properly
>for multiple threads isn't as easy as Microsoft wants you to believe it is.

I believe the problem lies in basically having to redesign everything
from scratch, which the Team would not be likely to do solely for the
sake of multi-threadedness.

>Besides, process switches are nearly as fast as thread switches, so what's
>the problem with the solutions presented so far?

Memory consumption? I believe two threads can share the same memory
(for reading at least) but not so for two processes.


Peter Popov
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