"Ronald L. Parker" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:23:16 -0700, "Twyst" <twy### [at] twystednet> wrote:
> 
> >Here's a different look: why not write a pov-ray SPECIFIC library. IE. place
> >the files in, and using a customized interface, povray reads the library.
> >Who says anything about making it a DLL? Why not make a simple binary format
> >that povray can read crossplatform?
> 
> Because the code in the current isosurface DLLs is compiled C, in the
> form of processor-specific instructions, and would thus be useless to
> the average Amiga user (and possibly even the average DOS user).  You
> could write an entire virtual machine and make the 'libraries' contain
> p-code, but there would be a bit of a performance hit over just
> compiling the functions into the source directly.
Did I hear a JAVA whisper here, and a sob about the loss of Speed?
 
//Spider

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