In article <3ACB5155.AA9581F7@gmx.de> , Christoph Hormann 
<chr### [at] gmxde>  wrote:

>  This means that the compiled shaders are significantly
> faster than the current isosurface function interpreter.  I don't know
> what optimizations are planned for Povray 3.5 in that direction - just
> wanted to share this observation.

For complex isosurface functions a speedup factor of ten is possible,
but for extremely simple functions (like x*y) a minor slowdown will
occur.  However, all noteworthy limits in function size are eliminated
and there are hooks that could allow another factor of ten speedup (no
kidding!)...


    Thorsten


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