Warp wrote:

>   I have never thought about multiple processors in that way: It makes
> it faster to realize that it cannot be done. :P

I forget who, but somebody once wrote: "A supercomputer is a device for 
turning a compute-bounded problem into an I/O-bounded problem." (As in, 
if you take a large problem and throw lots of CPU at it, then I/O and 
storage become the problem...)

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Chris Cason wrote:

> Beta 24 is now available for Windows, with Linux to follow shortly.
> 
> Goodies new to this beta include multi-threaded photon shooting, full area
> light diffuse and specular illumination, support for reading the pixel
> resolution of an image map, and a new cubic pattern and warp.
> 
> See http://www.povray.org/beta/ for the full release notes and download.

Cool!  New features!

Regards,
John

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