Am 11.06.2011 22:43, schrieb Frederico Lopes:

> Well, this poses another question: why not a POV-Ray version in Java?

Because, despite JIT-compilers, C++ is still more performant on the 
major target platforms (currently Windows and Linux), and maintaining a 
Java port besides the C++ version would be a major PITA?

I'd rather modify some existing C++ compiler to generate JVM bytecode - 
that might turn out to be less of an effort, at least in the long run.

But of course you're free to do your own Java-port of POV-Ray :-P

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