Wednesday, March 14, 2007

New ray packet paper

Solomon Boulos and friends have shown that ray packets may work for secondary rays. Check out the first paper here. As much as I hate the software engineering implications that arise with ray packets, I do like that they can make things faster.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

a good ray-packet implementation should replace the mono ray path, since the simd overhead is quite negligible.

see for example https://gna.org/projects/radius/ (although it's still being actively worked on)

Unknown said...

oh, and i forgot to say: thanks a bunch for that paper link, similar things are being discussed on ompf at the moment: http://ompf.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=369

Peter Shirley said...

Hi Thomas-- interesting forum. I don't have an account, so I just made a blog entry-- feel free to cut and paste it or forward the link to that forum.