I think I read somewhere that Poser uses Reyes subdivision for smoothing at render time.
Firefly was not developed by Curious Labs, E-Frontier or Smith Micro, it was a third party render engine called Vortex.
Maybe this could lead you to some info on the subdivision process?

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