POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Hyperthreading : Re: Hyperthreading Server Time
29 Jul 2024 10:23:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Hyperthreading  
From: clipka
Date: 8 Jul 2012 09:50:16
Message: <4ff99018$1@news.povray.org>
Am 08.07.2012 15:01, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
>>>> You're doing something fundamentally wrong here: You should have a
>>>> single instance of POV-Ray running, with 100% CPU utilization :-P
>>>>
>>>> (Hint: Get POV-Ray 3.7!)
>>>
>>> Maybe when the beta finishes, eh?
>>
>> now I understand why you were complaining about really slow rendering of
>> cornell box... :)
>
> Well, that would only make it 4x faster, wouldn't it? It's still not
> going to turn a 40-minute render into a 15-second render like you
> claimed. :-P

Not exactly, but do expect more than 4x speedup. You may probably also 
get away with lower radiosity quality settings.

Are you at least using the 64-bit version of 3.6.2?


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