Tim Nikias <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> What is actually easier for POV to parse,
> (Float_Value*2) or (Float_Value+Float_Value)?

  I don't think there's any difference.
  In fact, I think that the former could be faster because a short constant
is probably faster to parse than a long identifier name (with the proper
value lookup involved).

> Does it make a difference? I tend to recall that
> I've learned somewhere that any parser/CPU has
> to do some extra job to break down the "multiply with
> 2" into something it can actually calculate, while
> "add" is very simple and clean to do for a CPU.

  You have probably confused something else with this. There's no practical
difference between addition and multiplication.

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