> I observed using htop process viewer that Povray, at least in v3.7, uses only a> single core to read and write files. In a 6 core i5 processor only core 6 was at> 100%.> > Cheers.>
The reason is very simple : Reading or writing a file can't benefit from
the use of multiple threads. It's a purely iterative process that can't
get split in several threads.
The same hold true for parsing. Purely single thread.
