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From: Chambers
Date: 17 Mar 2008 22:49:27
Message: <47df3bc7@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
>> 40 megapixel? Hmm how much RAM is it eating? Last time I tried an 
>> image around that big, POV-Ray crashed.
> 
> I have no idea. I haven't looked. I wouldn't expect it to be exceptional...
> 
> Assuming the image were exactly 40,000,000 pixels (which it isn't), I 
> would expect roughly 40,000,000 x 3 bytes = roughly 114 MB. You'd have 
> to have a fairly underpowered machine to not be able to spare 114 MB. 

Aren't you the one who complained about a single Word document taking 
10MB of RAM when open? :)

-- 
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com


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