Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> Wizard wrote:
> >  Povray is Great !!!! Fantastic !!! Increadible !!!! Simply suberb... But I
> > think Povray could be much amd much better !!!! Much more as it is now !... I
> > think Povray could be as Apache Web server. By Carefully inspecting povray
> > souce code I could notice that basically consists even and even again about the
> > same core code..... So Povray can be programmed as Apache Web Server to accept
> > changes and add functionality by adding modules..... The main code (opensource
> > sure !!!) could be maintained by a team of developers and accepting
> > functionality changes keeping control and knowledge of what is had being
> > developed around the world..... By adding functionality by adding modules would
> > be tremendous easy to povray code grow and became more and more powerfull
> > without rewrite it .....But I don't know yet if it would need a complete
> > rewrite of the entire or partially the source code  . It could take months and
> > a lot of programmers to do it!!!!.. But wouldn't worth all the job to do it
> > ?!?!?!? Think Everybody about this..... Ah! I have been testing povray with
> > Openmosix.... It works But it is deceptive slow....This sometimes makes me
> > angry because I expected a much fast rendering but in case my system things
> > occurs the opposite..... Anybody have any hint??? Any clue ???. I tried making
> > a little change in code, but didn't worked !!!! I am thinking about to prey to
> > God to get help !!!!!!! Please I need Help !!!!!
>
> Did you ever consider that writing in a coherent manner could actually
> motivate people to read your post???
>
>  Thorsten, POV-Team

   Mr Thorsten,

   How is German ?. I heard that is great!. I heard in a touristic agency that
we brazilians can stay in German for two weeks without special permission. I
think that you can do the same in Brazil.  Did you already visited Japan,
Brazil?. Oh! I hope so!. I saw your home page. Take some sleep sometimes help
put ideas in order !. We brazilians say this to each other often...

In the first post I suggested, to make Povray more like Apache Web server.
     This in my humble opnion, would make easier to add more functionality from
contribuitors all around the world without lose too much portability. As you
see don't have many "unofficial patches" of Apache.
     I suggest it because I have a small Openmosix cluster where I live. As my
 main interest is clustering and Pararell applications. I tested Povray in my
cluster with very poor performance. Things went slower not faster as it should
be. Openmosix migrate povray process to a faster machine, but it became slower.
    A rendering file took from Mr Piqueres site, baubles.pov, took about 2 to 3
hours to finish in a single machine using the two pass method. In my Openmosix
cluster it takes much more to complete only the second pass. I know that povray
3.6 isn't multithreaded and don't forks as desirable in the OpenMosix cluster.It
just migrate the process. And don't think that is ethernet bandwidth because is
sufficient enough.
     By making povray as Dynamically Loading Module and create smaller child
process as normally required in pararell.
     In these holydays in Japan I been working on that!.I compiled a small DSO
povray executable. But things didn't went right as expected. At first,
 this small binary seemed to work when started without options it gives all
messages. But starting it to render a image: ./povray +iwoodbox.pov it failed !
as it exited and printed: "Illegal instruction". All libraries: libpovray.so
libbase.so libfrontend.so was build smoothly without problems. The tiny
executable povray was also smoothly builded. All Under OpenMosix kernel. As I
tried too in normal kernel.Any clue ?.
      Well I hope, this time make myself more clear.


                                   Regards!

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