POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV Wishlist : Re: POV Wishlist Server Time
3 Aug 2024 10:16:06 EDT (-0400)
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From: Chambers
Date: 16 Mar 2004 17:00:36
Message: <40577904@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:405771a3@news.povray.org...
>   I wouldn't be surprised if a future version of POV-Ray would do exactly
> this. In fact, part of the current parser already does this: The function
> parser/interpreter (this is the reason why functions are so fast compared
> to eg. #macros).

I always thought the reason that parsing scenes was slow had nothing to do
with the actual parser, and everything to do with memory allocation.  I seem
to remember reading about this in the vfaq and on this ng, but I can't seem
to find anything on it now.

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...Chambers
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