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30 Jul 2024 10:11:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Satrap in all his glory  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 2 Jan 2013 03:26:12
Message: <50e3ef24$1@news.povray.org>
On 1-1-2013 18:19, Stephen wrote:
> On 01/01/2013 11:58 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>
>> Wasn't there also multithreading for the Cloth Room?
>

> feature will attempt to parallelize (is that even a word in English?)
> the computations across multiple threads during bending, this will
> produce faster bending by better utilizing multi-threads and multi-core


Yeah, I saw that too. I wonder what that really means. I suppose 
/bending/ refers to pose changes from frame to frame.
Somehow I was left with the idea that multi-threading was extended to 
the Cloth Room.

>
> I did not notice any speed difference in the Cloth Room. Both Win Task
> Manager and Process Explorer showed about 17% CPU usage when calculating
> a simulation and they took the same time.

Hmm. Seems like business as usual to me. A shame that they discarded the 
Poser forums. Those were excellent means to get info and help.

>
> Maybe they have updated it for 2012.

Not in that respect, according to the Feature Comparison Chart it seems.

Thomas


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