in news:cjameshuff-66B0E8.20321304112004@news.povray.org Christopher
James Huff wrote: 

> I don't see why it would be any better than simply allowing the user
> to keep a data structure for the next frame. What benefit does a
> database give you?

I don't realy know, that's why I'm asking. 
 
> No, it wouldn't benefit particle systems. A general database system 
> would be too slow for that kind of thing.

I can see that it would be slower than some dedicated particle program,
would it also be slower than an SDL implementation. What if we're
dealing with "millions" of spheres bouncing down a mountain? SQLite can 
keep the database in memory, so no disk action to slow us down.

> However, some more versatile data structures (easily modifiable
> arrays, lists, sets, and dictionaries) would be very useful. Also
> things like point sets and other more specialized structures...

They are high on my ever growing POV-whislist, especialy dictionaries. 


But what I'm realy interested in is, what could an embedded (or ODBC) 
database add to POV-Ray. 

Ingo

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