George Pantazopoulos wrote:
>        You are certainly right to bring up this point, and I have
> considered it as well. However, ssh already does this better than
> anything I could code up, so I felt I shouldn't try reinventing the wheel.
> 
Yes, okay, tunnelling over ssh is perfectly okay from the security point 
of view. Especially if one can make sure that the POV server port is 
not directly accessible from the internet...

>         Say we have 20 computers, and each task takes 100 minutes total
> (per computer). 5 percent parse overhead means 5 minutes per computer is
> spent parsing, and the remaining 95 rendering. That means that (20 cpus
> * 5 minutes parsing/cpu = 100 ) cpu-minutes are spent parsing and (20
> cpus * 95 minutes rendering/cpu = 1900 ) cpu-minutes are spent
> rendering. So the complete overhead is 100 cpu-minutes out of the 2000
> total, which is still 5%, not 100%. Remember, my patch only parses once
> per machine, not once per tile :)
> 
You're certainly correct here. What I was calculating is: we could render 
one complete image from the produced overhead. So, the overhead is 
100% of the CPU cycles required to render one image. 

> Also, we have a great program called RendView for anims, I'm aiming this
>    program at accelerating high-quality stills :)
> 
So, if you have any suggestions / improvements or find bugs in this program, 
please let me know. 

Wolfgang

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