From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun,  7 Sep 1997 15:00:42 -0500
From: Brandon Black photon@nol.net
Subject: [9fans] XaoS30 and plan9
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For the network stuff... at least on *nix machines you could use the PVM
libraries... POVRay is built with them to make a distributed version
called "PVMPOV".

Brandon

On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Jan Hubicka wrote:

> Hi
> I slowly finishing work at XaoS3.0 (an fractal zoomer) and I want to make
> plan9 port working again. So do you have any ideas for improvements?
> But main purpose why I write this email is, that this version has also
> thread support for SMP boxes. 
> I want to make threaded version for plan9 too, since I want to try
> its API (and compare it with posix and beos one). I don't have SMP machine,
> so I would be greatly interested if someone own such machine and has some
> time to test XaoS before it will be released to let me know how it works/
> do some speed comparsion tests.
> I thinking also about networked version of XaoS, but this should be much
> more complex problem, so possibly I will solve it later (in 3.1 :)
> XaoS routines needs be very fast and synchronization for clauclation
> over net should require lots of everhead so it should be slower than
> running at single machine.
> 
> Thanks
> Honza
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