Whoa.
And here I'd0 thought for years that He-Who-Was-Hinks was some kind of programming genius. If he doesn't even know what single-precision and double-precision floats are, and the difference between the two, not to mention what a vector is, then this goes past idiotic to bordering on outright incompetence.
No, seriously. It looks like he read the POV-Ray FAQ on why they don't support AltiVec and then drew his own conclusions from that (and drew them poorly, I might add). Except that had he even had that much information, then he would have known for certain that AltiVec doesn't do double-precision floats.
Either this guy is a complete farud -in which case, the whole Hotline debacle should be investigated further- or he's just plain making stuff up, probably out of a distaste for Apple which has been mirrored for years in his idiotic "UI policy".
And here I'd0 thought for years that He-Who-Was-Hinks was some kind of programming genius. If he doesn't even know what single-precision and double-precision floats are, and the difference between the two, not to mention what a vector is, then this goes past idiotic to bordering on outright incompetence.
No, seriously. It looks like he read the POV-Ray FAQ on why they don't support AltiVec and then drew his own conclusions from that (and drew them poorly, I might add). Except that had he even had that much information, then he would have known for certain that AltiVec doesn't do double-precision floats.
Either this guy is a complete farud -in which case, the whole Hotline debacle should be investigated further- or he's just plain making stuff up, probably out of a distaste for Apple which has been mirrored for years in his idiotic "UI policy".