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11 Aug 2024 03:26:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Any way to avoid repeated parsing?  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 16 Sep 1999 15:27:20
Message: <37e14498@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:23:55 -0500, Bob Hughes wrote:
>I'm not totally inner workings savy, but yes, from what I understand
>the visible scene is calculated so the other stuff can be dropped out.
>That makes for a change in parse I believe even when just viewpoint
>changes.

Nope.  But vista buffers are view-angle dependent.  Still, there's not
currently any way to save the results of the parse.  My understanding
is that it wouldn't save as much time as it might seem anyway.


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