POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: 3DNow or Later?: Re: 3DNow or Later?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : 3DNow or Later? : Re: 3DNow or Later?		Server Time 8 Aug 2024 08:18:31 EDT (-0400)

From: Peter J Holzer
Date: 28 Jan 2001 14:02:52
Message: <slrn978qtm.n50.hjp-usenet@teal.h.hjp.at>

On 2001-01-26 10:31, Michael Brown <emb### [at] i4freeDELETETHISconz> wrote:
>Just wondering if Povray supports 3DNow (plain vanilla K6-2 and/or extended
>Athlon), and if not if it plans to support it in the future.

Look in povray.unofficial.patches. Daniel Jungmann has converted the
color handling (which is single precision) to use 3D!Now and reports a
speedup of at least 50%.

	hp


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