Tom York wrote:
> I find parsing can easily be comparable to the render time for the scenes I
> render (use of meshes and medium-complexity macros). 

What the current POV calls "parsing" isn't what things like ANTLR do. 
"Parsing" (in the non-POV sense) means building a data structure 
isomorphic to the input source code. "Parsing" in the POV sense includes 
things like executing the while loops, while in the ANTLR sense it does 
not. So with a parser generator, you'd have three phases: parsing 
(fast), evaluating (putting together all the objects in the scene), then 
rendering (calculating pixel colors).

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