Its been an interesting discussion about the problems with multithreading
the current version of POV.  However, I agree with the point Tim made about
future machines going more and more to SMP (or similar) systems.

In the planning for POV v4, is there any attempt to rewrite the code so that
multithreading could be more easily implemented?  I've caught hints in this
newsgroup that v4 will be recast in C++ so, if that much of a rewrite is
going to occur, wouldn't it make sense to make sure it was multithreadable
too?

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Jan Danielsson wrote in message ...
>How should a multithreaded povray work?
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>I guess the user specifies how many threads he/she wants, then what?
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>Should the threads render lines, or should it devide to picture in to
>'imageheight devided by threads' blocks and render them?
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> /j
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