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ingo <ing### [at] home nl> wrote:
> in <3af01891@news.povray.org> Geoff Wedig wrote:
>>> Or is this just the reading of the data file?
>>
>> I would assume (perhaps incorrectly) that the pretrace would read
>> in the file, just as it does when you do it manually. Or is there
>> something funky you do in the manual reads?
> Changed count from 80 to 1000 to see if there is a time difference.
> First pass the pretrace is finished after 18 min. Total render time, 45
> min.
> Second pass, reading the data/ pretrace, 4 min. Total render time 6
> min. Quite a big difference, I didn't notice in the earlier experiments
> as the total rendertime's where mutch shorter.
Yes, that'd make a big difference. adding the always_sample off might also
make a difference.
Geoff
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