Quote - C4D r15 has engaged Embree and it has made a huge difference in my render times. It would  be nice if Daz followed suit. 

Thanks Mark for your comment. This is proof positive that Embree needs to be implemented in Carrara urgently.

As I mentioned in another thread, my recommendations to Daz are:

1. Take the fast mipmap code out of Carrara and trash it. The fast mipmap thingy in Carrara only proves how much Daz developers are out of touch with today's cutting-edge technology.

2. By the same token take-out the 'summed area table' filtering option and trash it too, because it simply doesn't work. Use it and you will see seams appear in the renders, all over the place. This is another one of Carrara's features that have been shipped without being tested.

3. Fix whatever was done to screw-up the Gaussian filtering option that now runs 10% slower than it did in 8.1.1.12.

4. Implement Embree in Carrara's native renderer, spend a full 2 months testing it on hundreds of animated and still scenes to make sure it's bug-free.

5. Ship C9 and see Carrara's sales go through the roof.