David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote:
: Is there no way to make external patterns as fast as internal ones?

  Interpreted code can never be as fast as optimized machine code. You
always get some overhead.
  The interpreted code can be sometimes almost as fast as machine code,
but there is always a little overhead. Sometimes interpreted code is a lot
slower.

  The only way of making fastest possible "plugins" is to make them in C
(or some other similar compiled language) and compile them to DLL's or
something similar and making povray to support them.
  This has been discussed several times before and it's not a very good
option in povray.
  In a one-platform software (such as Moray) it's an excellent option.

-- 
char*i="b[7FK@`3NB6>B:b3O6>:B:b3O6><`3:;8:6f733:>::b?7B>:>^B>C73;S1";
main(_,c,m){for(m=32;c=*i++-49;c&m?puts(""):m)for(_=(
c/4)&7;putchar(m),_--?m:(_=(1<<(c&3))-1,(m^=3)&3););}    /*- Warp -*/

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