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Re: IDLgrVolume [message #33749 is a reply to message #33679]

Tue, 21 January 2003 20:54

Paul Woodford
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Registered: June 2000

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In article <b0kjj9$l5a$1@news.rsinc.com>,
"Karl Schultz" <kNOSPAMschultz@rsinc.com> wrote:

> Since your machine is dual processor, you are also ahead of the game,
> as IDLgrVolume was multi-threaded even before some other IDL
> functions received MT support.

Note that you need to set HINTS=2 to use multiple processors.

In article <b0k1t3$1nug$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>,
"Rick Towler" <rtowler@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> IDLgrVolume can use multiple CPU's but a look at some older posts
> suggest that the improvement might not be worth the investment.

That is not my experience. I can't recall the last time I actually
timed it, but going from 1 to 2 processors doubled the rendering speed
for me.

Paul

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[Message index]

		IDLgrVolume By: lyubo on Sat, 18 January 2003 18:56
		Re: IDLgrVolume By: Karl Schultz on Tue, 21 January 2003 23:16
		Re: IDLgrVolume By: Paul Woodford on Tue, 21 January 2003 20:54
		Re: IDLgrVolume By: Paul Woodford on Tue, 21 January 2003 20:54
		Re: IDLgrVolume By: Karl Schultz on Tue, 21 January 2003 15:07
		Re: IDLgrVolume By: Rick Towler on Tue, 21 January 2003 13:11
		Re: IDLgrVolume By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 January 2003 12:32
		Re: IDLgrVolume By: Rick Towler on Tue, 21 January 2003 09:57
		Re: IDLgrVolume By: lyubo on Tue, 21 January 2003 10:44
		Re: IDLgrVolume By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 January 2003 06:47
		Re: IDLgrVolume By: s[1] on Tue, 21 January 2003 02:28

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