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10 Aug 2024 03:21:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Here's an idea...  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 10 Mar 2000 21:29:07
Message: <38C9B1EF.56F196F1@erols.com>
David Fontaine wrote:
> 
> How 'bout, when POV parses a scene, it only loads macros and definitions
> into memory if they're used. Because a lot of people make
> general-purpose includes and don't use half of it for a particular
> scene. This probably isn't worth it for smaller scenes, so maybe a
> switch to turn it on, and normally it loads 'em all.

My latest IRTC entry uses about 6 Megs or so of memory.  My macro files
occupy less than 1% of this.  I think the POV team has bigger fish to fry.

Regards,
John


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