POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Reading things differently. : Re: Reading things differently. Server Time
25 Apr 2024 15:38:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reading things differently.  
From: William F Pokorny
Date: 18 May 2018 07:11:37
Message: <5afeb4e9$1@news.povray.org>
On 05/17/2018 01:06 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 17.05.2018 um 16:06 schrieb clipka:
>> Am 17.05.2018 um 12:49 schrieb clipka:
>>
>>> Performance is another issue, with parsing of the benchmark scene still
>>> taking about 40% longer, but I'm optimistic that I can trim that down
>>> quite a bit.
>>
>> ... and already close to normal performance again: Difference on
>> benchmark scene is now within measurement tolerances, while a 45M token
>> mesh2-heavy scene is now just 8% slower than with the current GitHub
>> master version.
> 
> Well, it gets better and better: I'm already 7% /faster/ now. And I
> haven't even started on the optimizations I originally had in mind. So
> far it's more or less a byproduct of the new dedicated scanner and
> related refactoring.
> 
> I guess linear scenes won't get much improvement on top of this (at
> least not as long as the parser remains single-threaded), but I'm pretty
> sure I can do something about non-linear scenes.
> 

Guessing the magnitude of linear improvement will depend on the SDL 
writer's characteristic verbosity(1)?

Bill P.

(1) - I'll be able to crank it to 11... :-)


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