In article <39a6ac8f$1@news.povray.org>, "Wolfgang Manousek" 
<wol### [at] to_much_spamcom> wrote:

> Are there any efforts in process to make POV take advantage of 
> multiple CPUs in a box ?

Making a multi-processor POV would not only require figuring out some 
way to implement threads in a platform-independant way, but all of the 
problems with global variables, caches, and other shared data would have 
to be sorted out. Basically, a complete rewrite and redesign is 
necessary.
POV-Ray 4.0, which will be a rewrite in C++, will solve some of these 
problems. While it itself might not be multiprocessor enabled, it will 
be a step in the right direction. This *is* being discussed, but right 
now, the POV Team is concentrating their free time on getting 3.5 
released.

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Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
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