Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Are you aware that the soon-to-come POV-Ray 3.7 will support SMP
> all by itself?
I am now! :)

Well that would most definitely be much better than anything I could do as
it would not have none of the overheads of external software, including
python itself, as you mentioned, as well as the fact that joining 8 slices
to create one image, even though looks identical (as far as I can tell),
the file size is about 25% larger than a single render would create.

Thanks for enlightening me Warp

Nima

>   The greatest advantage of it is that rendering in multiple threads
> will not consume more memory than rendering in a single thread. (Of
> course other advantages include the fact that since it supports
> multiple threads "natively" it's handier because you don't need to
> hassle with external scripts).
>
>   In your case if the scene takes 1 gigabyte of memory, rendering with
> two processes will require 2 gigabytes of memory.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

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