POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : 3.7 SMP documentation : Re: 3.7 SMP documentation Server Time
28 Jul 2024 12:37:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3.7 SMP documentation  
From: MessyBlob
Date: 6 Apr 2009 18:05:00
Message: <web.49da7b6d4bf05309addfbead0@news.povray.org>
"MessyBlob" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Possibly the only truly reprocucible (and thread-safe) way is to iteratively
> process the whole scene ...

The essential point being that this way, you're not trying to arbitrate many
threads reading and writing the same structure: instead, you're logically
reading from one, and writing to another, which is thread-safe, and can be run
in parallel.


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