Oh I second the request for them to make the render sequence smarter. You can accept one-core-one-bucket, becuase if nec. you can set the bucket size small, but the cores should be assigned THE NEXT bucket, not the way it currently works, which is to divide the entire render into four quadrants and set a core to a quadrant.

Inevitably, one quad contains hair, eye reflections and eyelashes, and all the other three are finished long before the lone straggler gets done, exhausted!

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