> * Great idea and good work!

Thanks!


> * In the hardware section, don't make "graphic cards" bold, but "You don't
> even need a graphic card to raytrace" because later on you mark bold what is
> needed, and a reader only scanning the text could misunderstand that
> paragraph.

Good idea.


> * Question: On which platform did you measure the streams? I am wondering
> because they are much faster than I would have expected.

Text terminal in Linux (Gentoo 2.4.25). I tried to get timings using 
-GA, but that did not work at all (I got the debug messages 
nevertheless), see my thread in p.b.g.


> * The thread about functions you link to contains some wrong information.
 > [constant expressions evaluated at parse time]

But it still true that using internal functions for non-constant 
expressions is faster than using user defined functions, isn't it? As 
mentioned in that paragraph the subject is above my level of knowledge, 
so I just quoted Tor's post. I hope I can do some benchmarks myself 
about it.



Florian
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