Just another question, when rendering only a portion of an image, the +C
flag doesn't always work so nicely. Does anyone have any comments on what
they think of the +C flag for continuing a render?

Nima

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