[Bf-committers] Cycles performance on Windows

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Jurgen,

You're very welcome to join the windows platform team as maintainer for MSVC 2012.
Did you already have patches we should apply? We typically give people commit access after a couple of good patches.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
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On 10 May, 2013, at 22:02, Jürgen Herrmann wrote:

> This sounds reasonable. So we need a lightning fast math library replacement for MS compilers...
> I'm just kidding, but the idea might be insane enough to try ;)
> 
> I am very satisfied with the speed improvement that MSVC 2012 has brought to blender. I would love to see this in the wild. It could make some people very happy.
> 
> I would volunteer to maintain this build platform if desired.
> 
> /Jürgen
> 
> 
> Am 10.05.2013 um 20:17 schrieb Antony Riakiotakis <kalast at gmail.com>:
> 
>> According to the MinGW64 developers, the math library implementation is
>> faster for gcc. The simulations use openmp which is disabled in MinGW64 due
>> to their buggy pthread implementation which makes openmp hang when used
>> during pthread execution.
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