--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2022/02/04 20:11:49 1.401 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2022/03/07 17:55:09 1.403 @@ -2504,3 +2504,13 @@ sanity checks. Added -O option to pvalue and pextrem to report watts/sr/m^2 even if 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.