POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Script language speed : Re: Script language speed Server Time
7 Aug 2024 11:17:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Script language speed  
From: Andrew
Date: 5 Nov 2001 11:54:51
Message: <3be6c45b$1@news.povray.org>
So this isn't the same as letting Windows or whatever cache the file and
serve it from memory anyway?

> Actually, there is nothing fundamentally slow about the interpreter
itself,
> just the design depends on disk reading.  In fact the parser is
spending
> most of the time doing some kind of disk reading, and the speed
increases
> significantly if disk reading is faster.  If you copy your files to a
RAM
> disk* you will see a difference!
>
>     Thorsten
>
>
> * One that actually fits into the RAM, not one in virtual memory!


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.