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by rsp1984 3517 days ago
I was stating this in the context of ray tracing. Why not just use OpenMP and be done with it?
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I answered that question. OpenMP fork-join concurrency can be useful for certain parts of a ray tracer depending on the overall architecture. It is far from the only way and can have many draw backs when it comes to overhead, synchronization and memory locality.