POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.macintosh : pov 3.5 : Re: pov 3.5 Server Time
16 Jun 2024 19:11:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: pov 3.5  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 16 Jul 2002 17:15:02
Message: <3d348cd6@news.povray.org>
In article <chr### [at] netplexaussieorg> , 
Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>  wrote:

> There may be something specific to how POV-Ray Mac works though...maybe
> the way it handles events uses up CPU time or prevents it from using
> 100% of available cycles.

No, but under Mac OS X one has to give control to the system as frequently
as possible to prevent the spinning beachball cursor which effectively locks
the user out of the program.  So under mac OS X POV-ray 3.5 for Mac OS is
forced to be more friendly than under Mac OS 9.

    Thorsten

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