POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: beta 3.7 multicore feature automatic or requires code?: beta 3.7 multicore feature automatic or requires code?

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From: societyofrobots
Date: 1 Feb 2009 03:00:00
Message: <web.498555dac9e4fdf0e977d74a0@news.povray.org>

I have a dual core so I'm very much interested in speeding up my POV-Ray
processing using the new beta.

Is it automatically handled in the background, meaning v3.6 code will see a
speed up if run in v3.7? Or do I need to modify the code first to take
advantage of the feature?

All I see on the beta page is:
"This version uses multi-threaded rendering by default."
"You can render in only one thread by using the '/THREADS 1' switch in the
Windows version."

Got any benchmarks?

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