shvrdavid posted at 6:04 PM Thu, 9 June 2022 - #4439758

Path traced micro displacement is a huge memory hog, and on most systems the render will come to a crawl. If it has to page, forget it..

Out of interest, do you happen to have a good source that explains why? I have a distinct memory of having watched a whole video course about light transport at some point, but apparently my scatterbrain has not held on to much more of it than "we can go a lot faster than Monte Carlo by picking the rays we trace back smartly." :-)

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.