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19 Apr 2024 15:07:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: v3.7.1 beta.6  
From: clipka
Date: 8 May 2017 11:52:32
Message: <59109440$1@news.povray.org>
Am 08.05.2017 um 17:38 schrieb clipka:
> Am 08.05.2017 um 02:13 schrieb green:
>> pov-ray critical error
>> failed to initialize frontend: timed out waiting for worker thread startup
> 
> FYI, the issue seems to be specific to CPUs without AVX support.
> Something seems to be going wrong with the optimized noise
> implementation there (or, more specifically, with the function intended
> to determine the CPU type and come to the conclusion that no optimized
> noise implementation is available for those CPUs).

Kudos in this context to the folks at AMD who are currently trying to
figure out how I managed to goof up the optimizations-related code they
had provided us with.


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