POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : PovRay faster : Re: PovRay faster Server Time
2 Sep 2024 04:16:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: PovRay faster  
From: Daniel Jungmann
Date: 31 Jan 2001 09:18:04
Message: <3a781e9c@news.povray.org>
> Yes, but who handles all the support coming from more than _one_ version?
> If you offer something like ten versions optimised for the ten (or more)
x86
> processors in common use today, and half of them are slow on another four
> and do not run on the other five of the ten processors, you will have a
lot
> of confused users.  Remember that not everybody knows what processor they
> use - why should a user know?
>
>
>       Thorsten

That is realy no problem! The program can find out which CPU is there and
load a DLL which renders the scene file. Or you can find out the processor
at instalation time and install the right exe.


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