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<li>The built-in benchmark now accepts the <code>+L<path></code> command-line option</li> | <li>The built-in benchmark now accepts the <code>+L<path></code> command-line option</li> | ||
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<li>It also accepts <code>+wt</code> to set the number of work threads</li> | <li>It also accepts <code>+wt</code> to set the number of work threads</li> | ||
<li>and now also accepts the <code>--version</code> parameter</li> | <li>and now also accepts the <code>--version</code> parameter</li> | ||
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Features
This section covers version 3.7 changes and new features that apply to POV-Ray for Unix. See the section Changes and New Features Summary for information about non-platform specific changes.
New Features
- Reworked the built-in
--benchmark - The built-in benchmark now accepts the
+L<path>command-line option - and now ONLY reads the built-in INI file.
- It also accepts
+wtto set the number of work threads - and now also accepts the
--versionparameter - Added preliminary Linux support for these two features:
- CPU timer; might return incorrect results depending on the platform.
- signal catching when aborting a render by hitting Ctrl+C
- Added support for the
+Poption to allow pause when done. - Unix default file gamma changed from from 1.0 to 2.2.
Display Options
The Unix version now has a single binary which supports display using the X Window System, or using the SVGA library with the console on GNU/Linux systems only, or via text graphics otherwise. If the command-line options or INI files turn on display, the following heuristic is used to determine what kind of display should be used. If the DISPLAY environment variable is set, the X Window display is used. Otherwise, if the user is on the console, and has permission to do so, SVGAlib is used. Otherwise, text graphics are used.
Text graphics display a crude 75x24 ASCII version of the image which can be useful none the less to monitor the render progress on a text terminal. Using text graphics and the Verbose +v option simultaneously will not work very well.
Note: See the section Known Bugs for more information about a problem with the X11 windows system.
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