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11 Oct 2024 01:22:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Adventures with digital painting  
From: Orchid XP v7
Date: 26 Mar 2008 06:11:49
Message: <47ea2f75@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:

>> The kind of tasks I typically want to do involve heavy number crunching.
>> Scripting languages aren't terribly suitable to this...
> 
> Scripting languages aren't designed for performance, as a general rule, 
> so yes, that wouldn't be appropriate for a scripting language if you have 
> complex calculations or lots of data to process.

This is the problem with POV-Ray's SDL. People *have* built physics 
engines with it, but it's really not fantastically suitable for that task...

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