In article <3be69fc4@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   A negative thing about this is that POV-Ray is an extremely slow
> interpreter.

Actually, there is nothing fundamentally slow about the interpreter itself,
just the design depends on disk reading.  In fact the parser is spending
most of the time doing some kind of disk reading, and the speed increases
significantly if disk reading is faster.  If you copy your files to a RAM
disk* you will see a difference!

    Thorsten


* One that actually fits into the RAM, not one in virtual memory!

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