| author | Radek Brich <radek.brich@devl.cz> | 
| Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:24:33 +0100 | |
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Pyrit Ray Tracer  | 
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Pthreads  | 
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Threads can be used to render rows of picture paralelly. Arbitrary number  | 
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of threads can be used, even numbers like 17 are acceptable.  | 
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To completely disable this feature just remove "-DPTHREADS -pthreads"  | 
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from flags in makefile.  | 
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For Windows + Mingw32, get pthreads library here:  | 
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http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/  |