POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Parsing Q : Re: Parsing Q Server Time
29 Jul 2024 06:27:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Parsing Q  
From: Warp
Date: 30 May 2006 14:40:49
Message: <447c91b1@news.povray.org>
M_a_r_c <jac### [at] wanadoofr> wrote:
> It should be faster than real parsing isn't it?

  I think you are confusing terms here.

  Parsing a script means to split it (internally) into meaningful tokens.
Interpreting it, which you call "real parsing" is to act upon those tokens.

  POV-Ray has to parse the file in order to find the proper #end.

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                                                          - Warp


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