POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Script language speed : Re: Script language speed Server Time
7 Aug 2024 11:23:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Script language speed  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 5 Nov 2001 12:20:56
Message: <3be6ca78@news.povray.org>
In article <3be6c45b$1@news.povray.org> , "Andrew" 
<ast### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> So this isn't the same as letting Windows or whatever cache the file and
> serve it from memory anyway?

No.  The operating system uses the cache together for all running
applications, background processes and so on.  The RAM disk will only
contain the whole file, and it will contain it immediately while the disk
cache can only cache the file after it had to be read from disk once
already.

    Thorsten

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