POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.text.tutorials: Macro Recursion: Re: Macro Recursion

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From: Bill DeWitt
Date: 25 May 1999 22:20:37
Message: <374b4c65.0@news.povray.org>

Spider says:
>
> In general, try to avoid recursion in POV. its far slower and more
> memory consuming than a #while loop. (or a set of them).

    Considering the trouble I am having, I will find it easy to avoid
recursion. I thought it would be an easy way to change parameters while
zooming into a fractal, but I begin to doubt if it is worth it.

>
> That should suffice to count them ..
>

    Blows up at 97, I was thinking about a million or so.

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