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• Further improvements to OSL performance — A new mode of "Batched" OSL shading is available as a User Option and when used with to provide shading speedups when used on machines with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512).  This may become defaulted to "on" in future versions. Read about it here under Performance Notes.
• Crack Free Displacement on Polygons — PxrDisplace now supports this crack-free polygon displacement when "int polygon:smoothdisplacement" is enabled on geometry with user supplied non-smooth normals

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