I can verify that tachyon renders using multiple threads on linux. In fact it looks like it uses all available threads by default (!). Rendering the 1000 random platonic solids from William's 3d plot worksheet took 1.07 seconds using 10 Xeon cores.
-- Benjamin Jones benjaminfjo...@gmail.com On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > From the spkg-install: > > # The threaded version of the 0.98 beta doesn't work on OS X. > > I haven't tried it myself. > > > > On Friday, March 2, 2012 11:17:55 AM UTC-8, William wrote: >> >> I thought that if I rendered a 3d scene using viewer='tachyon', then >> it would use the multiple cores of my computer to render the scene >> more quickly. However, I was just rendering a complicated 3d scene >> for my class (that takes about 30 seconds), and in top I see the >> attached screenshot -- in particular, there is only 1 thread. >> I'm using a Core i7 OS X 10.7 laptop that has at least 2 processors >> (and "4 hardware threads", I think), and Sage Version 5.0.beta2. > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
