Frank Ramsay wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I know this is probably in a FAQ somewhere, but I didn't
> see one that answered my question so...   I just got up
> my SMP Linux box at home and was wondering if there was
> a version of POV with SMP support?

There is no threaded version of POV-Ray; that's going to require a
rather extensive rewrite, since the code is cluttered with global
variables that date back a long ways.  You can take some advantage of
multiple processors by using one of the parallel versions of POV-Ray
that is designed for clusters.  The performance increase won't be quite
as good as you might hope, and you'll effectively be running two
instances, so it will take up twice as much memory as it would
otherwise.  But it's better than single-processor.  Try looking into
PVMPOV.

-Mark Gordon

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