POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV-Ray and SMP support : Re: POV-Ray and SMP support Server Time
5 Aug 2024 20:22:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray and SMP support  
From: Mark Wagner
Date: 31 Jul 2002 23:23:18
Message: <pan.2002.08.01.03.22.36.895907.201@gte.net>
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:45:13 -0400, Christian Parpart quoth:

> Hi all,
> 
> I unfortunately miss that feature. I've a Linux SMP machine and would
> like to provit from it in my POV-Ray times as well ;)
> 
> I just made a picture with radiosity and it's still computing - since 3
> +1/2 hours :(((. It would be 2x faster if it would use both CPUs.
> 
> This could be implemented for example by having 2 processes with
> concurrent pixel computation. (that's how I'd implement it ;)

To give a non-sarcastic answer:
This topic comes up so often that it is mentioned both in the VFAQ and
the manual.  RTFM.

-- 
Mark


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