New Features in Embree 2.17.1
- Improved performance of occlusion ray packets by up to 50%.
- Fixed detection of Clang for CMake 3 under MacOSX
- Fixed AVX code compilation issue with GCC 7 compiler caused by explicit use of vzeroupper intrinsics.
- Fixed an issue where Clang address sanitizer reported an error in the internal tasking system.
- Added fix to compile on 32 bit Linux distribution.
- Fixed some wrong relative include paths in Embree.
- Improved performance of robust single ray mode by 5%.
- Added EMBREE_INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES option (default OFF) to enable installing of Embree dependencies.
- Fixed performance regression for occlusion ray streams.
- Reduced temporary memory requirements of BVH builder for curves and line segments.
- Fixed performance regression for user geometries and packet ray tracing.
- Fixed bug where wrong closest hit was reported for very curvy hair segment.