In article <3c796226@news.povray.org>,
 "Rune" <run### [at] mobilixnetdk> wrote:

> Initializing with an array of 100 elements and making it ten times bigger
> whenever needed. It wastes a small amount of ressources, but in most cases
> nothing worth mentioning. In cases where it's an issue it is still possible
> to specify the number of points. It's optional.

I've never liked the "multiply size by N" method...I've always increased 
arrays by a fixed amount, say 16 or 32 elements. As long as the 
increment is big enough, you won't have much of a slowdown, but won't 
waste as much memory either.
Also, I don't think this is a very time-critical area...the splines will 
probably be generated once and then used throughout the scene. I doubt 
it will be slow enough to be noticeable.

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