Rick Measham <rickm*at%isite.net.au> wrote:
> ie, If I have a scene with 100 boxes, does POV-Ray prefer that I have a 
> loop or that I have 100 boxes, or doe it not matter.

  It doesn't matter.
  Parsing 100 boxes is theoretically slightly faster because povray
doesn't have to parse "#while", "#declare" and "#end" 100 times
(which it has to do if you use a loop), but I suppose that the
difference in time is not that much.

> With 100 boxes the file takes longer to read, but there is no looping 
> that needs to be taken care of.

  I don't think it takes longer to read.
  POV-Ray doesn't cache the input. When it has to jump in the file, it
just seeks it and continues reading from the new position.

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