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2 Jul 2024 10:05:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Optional way to handle #include files?  
From: stbenge
Date: 31 Jul 2010 19:06:48
Message: <4c54ac88@news.povray.org>
Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Now, what is the point of optimising the parser when the actual work of
> rendering the picture might take hours, days or weeks ?

It's not the parsing speed of the final render, it's all the previewing 
and tweaking it takes to get there.

> If you really wants performance, a single file with a copy of the needed
> macros (or even better, no macro call at all) is all you need.

I've copied macros and functions from other files into my main include, 
and that it seems to have sped things up considerably.


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