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28 Jul 2024 06:20:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV and AMD's 3DNow instructions  
From: John M  Dlugosz
Date: 27 Sep 1999 22:19:33
Message: <37f025b5@news.povray.org>
It might be good for low-quality test renders...?

TonyB <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote in message
news:37e3b466@news.povray.org...
> AFAIK, no support for any of this has been added. Apparently, it is
because
> the FP that these processors (like the Pentium III) add is
single-precision,
> not double-precision like POV uses, so it doesn't benefit from it. I
believe
> I've heard some mention that small parts of POV might be able to be
> accelerated, but nothing substantial. Another alternative was to compile
> with a compiler that optimizes the compiled executable for these
processors.
>
>


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