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> From Pov 3.5 (or even 3.1) there still is a delay after and of render.
> It is caused by
> - closing/flushing output file, -f elimitase it
> - flushing all streams, -Ga eliminates it partialy
> - rendeing of message window slooowly scrolling (in Win32 version),
> hidding messages window helps it.

I did tested what exacly POV is dooing to my poor HDD after rendering using 
file-monitor.

Pov opens/closes/seeks/locks/unlocks about 15 files form /RERUN/ each 
several times. Also it checks something in few ini files from /INI/.

This time of delay before end of render and possibility to continue editing 
or re-reun render is only 1-2.5 seconds on Athlon 2 GHz (up to 5 sec. on 
slow computers like 400 MHz) but when someone is making a lots of changes 
to code and tests results several times in minute it could be quite 
annoying.

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Computer Graphics

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