On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Benjamin Jones <benjaminfjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Wow, that takes over 30 seconds on my OS X 10.7 "dual" core i7 laptop. Oh well... > > -- > 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 -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.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
