--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2022/03/04 01:28:51 1.402 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2022/03/07 17:55:09 1.403 @@ -2508,3 +2508,9 @@ picture is XYZE. Made subtle changes to header i/o routines to preserve alignment in binary file formats to enable memory-mapping. Implemented memory-mapped matrix loading in rmtxop for binary double files. + +Removed ambient value sorting, which was written when ambient caches +could overwhelm available memory. This is rarely the case these days, +and the added code complexity and updating of cache values with LRU +counts dirties pages that would otherwise remain clean, so it was +often a loss even when VM was an issue.