"Jim Kress" <nos### [at] kressworkscom> wrote:
> In VRML the files are text.  However, there are also "packed" versions of
> VRML files that are just gziped VRML text files. VRML viewers are designed
> to detect "packed VRML" files and render them properly.  It would seem
that
> this capability could be added to POV-Ray as well.  Gzip is also supported
> across all major platforms (Windows, Linux, etc).
>
> This kind of approach might help provide the functionality you seek.

I doubt so. Allowing PoV-Ray to read gzipped scene files can be useful for
faster reading of huge mesh files, but it still has to parse them, using a
lot of memory and time in the process.
In my idea, this data would have been already parsed, saving a lot of time,
and a bit of memory.

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