This meant that ray tracing a photo-realistic scene would take tens or hundreds of hours per frame

This program would be launched prior to production delivery, for days on end, thus ensuring the required degree of total resilience

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Without an IOMMU, the operating system would have to implement time-consuming bounce buffers (also known as double buffers [ 3 ] )

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Other reasons why event-logging solutions based on event codes are inappropriate for software tracing include: Because software tracing is low-level, there are often many more types of messages that would need to be defined, many of which would only be used at one place in the code

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int foo ( void ) { int a = 24 ; int b = 25 ; // Assignment to dead variable int c ; c = a * 4 ; return c ; b = 24 ; // Unreachable code return 0 ; } Simple analysis of the uses of values would show that the value of b after the first assignment is not used inside foo

Now, let’s use git hash-object to create a new data object and manually store it in your new Git database: $ echo 'test content' | git hash-object -w --stdin d670460b4b4aece5915caf5c68d12f560a9fe3e4 In its simplest form, git hash-object would take the content you handed to it and merely return the unique key that

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It would be a bad design to couple two things that change for different reasons at different times

For example, in volume ray casting the function would access data points from a 3D scan

The benefit is obvious, for example, for objects that rest upon other, such as a car resting on the ground: a bounding sphere would show the car as possibly intersecting with the ground, which then would need to be rejected by a more expensive test of the actual model of the car; a bounding box immediately shows the

If the rectangle's position were to be changed, the canvas would need to be redrawn, including any objects that might have been covered by the rectangle

The platform was a DEC PDP-10 , a Tektronix storage-tube display, and a printer which would create an image of the display on rolling thermal paper

Watchdog timers are commonly found in embedded systems and other computer-controlled equipment where humans cannot easily access the equipment or would be unable to react to faults in a timely manner

[16][17] A search engine called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services, designed by Robin Li in 1996, developed a strategy for site-scoring and page-ranking

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This would necessitate reading all of its texels and combining their values to correctly determine the pixel color, a prohibitively expensive operation

Uses [ edit ] Sculpting can often introduce details to meshes that would otherwise have been difficult or impossible to create using traditional 3D modeling techniques

The tessellation, along with shaders such as a Phong shader , allows for producing smoother surfaces than would be generated by the original mesh

[ 16 ] [ 17 ] A search engine called " RankDex " from IDD Information Services, designed by Robin Li in 1996, developed a strategy for site-scoring and page-ranking

Prior to that change, the meta data summary was located at the end of a media file and the entire file would need to be downloaded in order for the meta data to be read and the player begin playback

Engineers would guess which paths were longest (there were too many paths to evaluate exhaustively), write test vectors that would exercise that path, and then verify their estimates by testing chips to see how fast they could run

The procedural generation system in roguelikes would create dungeons in ASCII - or regular tile-based systems and define rooms, hallways, monsters, and treasure to challenge the player

These include "Gen Z Slang", which translates a given body of text into something which a Generation Z person would write, and LinkedIn Speak, allowing users to translate plain English into corporate jargon similar to that used in LinkedIn posts

Streeting reasoned that a simpler license would better grow the community and encourage voluntary contributions, rather than trying to legally compel them