Mark Gordon wrote:

> > Is POV available with SMP-support? I've got dual pII350 and would like
> > to maximize the use of the cpu's while rendering :)
> 
> POV-Ray was not written to support threading (remember, it derives from
> DKB-Trace which started on the Amiga in the early '90's).


But I mean, today it's 1999, not 1990. A few systems has got SMP
nowadays, and it'll become more in the future. Why not start
implementing threading, right-a-way? In five years everyone has got SMP
and most raytracers has got threading. Why not implementing threading
into POV-Ray? Just because of the "DKB-trace from 1990"?


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