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4 Aug 2024 16:15:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray Quiz for Intermediate Users  
From: Gena Obukhov
Date: 5 Jun 2003 01:20:02
Message: <3EDED126.4A26D823@mail.com>
Warp wrote:

>   I think that he meant that the difference in parsing time between the
> given transformation syntaxes are so minimal that in practice it isn't
> a big deal. (And as we know, the difference in rendering time, which is
> usually the most important issue, is non-existent.)

I posted some sources to p.b.s.-f. newsgroup (transform test). Try to
render that scene with two different macros: 'tomtree.inc' and 'tomtreet.inc'
The only difference between these two macros is 'transform'. The scene which
uses macro with 'transform' (tomtreet.inc) renders 6-7 times faster.

Gena.


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