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29 Jul 2024 02:22:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV_Ray for android?  
From: nemesis
Date: 2 Aug 2013 17:15:00
Message: <web.51fc208920ee1410ebb90cbd0@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 02.08.2013 07:54, schrieb Le_Forgeron:
>
> > I'm afraid any render of more than 30 seconds might siphon the battery
> > as well as overheat the cpu and burn your hand holding the cooling plate.
>
> Not necessarily. It might just as well throttle down to a crawl. But
> yes, smartphones and tablet PCs are pretty poor at number crunching.

that's because you guys still think of a number crunching CPU

number crunching nowadays has been largely delegated to GPUs

smartphone/tablets were created to play 3D games and decode mpg4 streams after
all, and that demands quite a lot of number crunching, running on GPU, sure


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