nLewis <noa### [at] writemecom> wrote:
: It's so simple, it can be done with a little patch if anyone wants to -
: How about having a command for POV to print out the post-preprocessed file -
: that is, the parsed file - so that if you have tons of macros and while's
: and if's you can generate a parsed file with a single command and quickly
: render an animation without re-parsing?

  So if you have a 1-kilobyte pov-file which creates a million spheres,
you'll end up with a 50-megabyte parsed file?

  And this idea about having a byte-compiled version of the scene has been
already discussed 100 times before. It is possible, but not simple.

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7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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