[rescue] using blender alone is going to be painful

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:25:46AM -0600, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> The new renderer that we are moving to (Exluna's Entropy) is heavily
> multithreaded. When we run it on our 8way, it pegs all the processors. It
> really flies on our new Dual 1.5GHz Athlon render slaves. We are very
> impressed with Entropy, it is really nice. The developers are great to deal
> with and we have had very good output from it. We just bought 60 seats
> actually.

Is Entropy actually threaded, do does it just automatically spawn more 
instances of itself?  I haven't used it, but I don't really see much reason
to bother with threads and network message passing in the same program.  If
you get much performance, then it means your platform has a fubared socket 
system.  

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Joshua D. Boyd