Thanks Grahame.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Grahame Fuller <[email protected] > wrote: > The Repeat node is multithreaded. You can confirm this by displaying the > performance highlights - the times shown by Worst Thread and All Threads > are different. > > My understanding is that what makes the Repeat and While nodes slow in > many circumstances is that it must wait for all threads to finish before it > can start the next iteration. > > Some things you can do to ease the pain: > > > * Do as little work as possible inside the loop. Precalculate and > reuse as much data as you can. > > * Avoid nested loops. If possible, refactor so that you have two > loops one after the other, the first performing the initial calculations > including the max iterations for the second loop. Alternatively, maybe you > can convert a nested loop to a single loop on an array. > > * If at all possible, use a hard-coded bound on the max > iterations. Apparently this allows some optimizations when the tree is > compiled. > > gray > > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Sale > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Multithread repeat node in ICE? > > Just wondering about the possibility of a multi threaded repeat node in > ICE. > > Is it achievable with the current state of Softimage? > > >
