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Added shared memory option for the render buffer

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This change adds the +SM command line option, which tells POV-Ray to use a memory mapped file to back the rendering buffer in vfeDisplay. This way other applications can also...

leozide

Changes have been added to support POV-Ray to run on more than 64 logical processors by having threads spread across all processor groups.This adds significant speedup for POV-Ray on machines...

techvintage

Photons do not work properly with true inverse power fading

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Photon mapping does not work properly with true inverse power fading. When true inverse power fading was introduced, the photon mapping code was apparently not updated to use the new...

CousinRicky

Speed up loading uncompressed bmp files

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Improved the speed of loading standard 24bit BMP files (and 32bit with alpha). Instead of reading one byte at a time, reading a whole line at a time reduces allot...

mlsomers