Something very important I have always wanted to know... when I use the drop down menu in the render window and select LIGHT PASS 1, for example... I know that is only SHOWS ME light pass 1, but it is in fact only actually RENDERING light pass 1, and therefore way way faster than rendering all of the other lights as well, OR is it still rendering all of the lights, but only SHOWING me light pass 1 ?
The reason I ask is, what I tend to do with difficult scenes is manually render different light passes by just keeping it in the regular beauty pass mode, and turning off the other lights temporarily. I find I get faster, cleaner results that using the actual LIGHT PASS system.