Thorsten Froehlich's furious key-hammering produced this:
> So you say with preview off and preemptive threading on, scenes that are not
> subject to the speed improvements in MegaPOV, which are for obvious versions
> not included in the official POV-Ray 3.5 as they didn't exist back then,
> there is a speed difference for a scene that takes more than an 10 minutes
> to render? (anything shorter wouldn't be a useful measurement)

The problem isn't that rendering is slow, it's that POV-Ray is only eating up a
fraction of CPU time (I did a check with no other active applications using top
and it only seems to utilize a maximum of 25%).

OTOH, I haven't tried preemptive threading yet.

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