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4 Jul 2024 13:44:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Animate Text Around a Sphere  
From: clipka
Date: 10 May 2011 09:07:32
Message: <4dc93894$1@news.povray.org>
Am 09.04.2011 10:48, schrieb Stephen:

> I can't say that I agree with either you or StephenS. Machine written
> code is never elegant, from the little I've seen. So what difference
> does an extra line or two make?

Speed and memory consumption.

Using a union for a single object will add unnecessary overhead, roughly 
duplicating the memory required per letter; it also /will/ impact render 
time, if ever so slightly.


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