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  Re: More than 15000 Bicubic Patches - 1 attachment  
From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Date: 30 Dec 2003 01:12:28
Message: <3ff1174c$1@news.povray.org>
Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in news:cjameshuff-
735### [at] netplexaussieorg:

> In article <3fef96d5@news.povray.org>,
>  Tor Olav Kristensen <tor_olav_kCURLYAhotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> > Parsing: 1m 42s
>> > Tracing: 9m 05s
>> > 
>> > @ 2GHz Athlon
>> > 
>> > Peak memory used: 903 MB
>> 
>> I ran it again with the type for all the bicubic patches
>> set to 0 instead of 1. Now I got these results:
>> 
>> Parsing: 18s
>> Tracing: 23s
>> 
>> Peak memory used: 12 MB
> 
> Interesting...how much memory does your system have? Swapping could 
> account for a great deal of the slowness of type 1.


I have (512-64)MB of RAM.
My PC is quite silent, so I didn't notice any serious disc-trashing.
But of course - you are right: It must have done some swapping.


Tor Olav


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