In article <3A60C792.D0AC3B43@faricy.net>, David Fontaine 
<dav### [at] faricynet> wrote:

> Is there no way to make external patterns as fast as internal ones? 
> That would probably require major changes to the code though (if 
> possible).

You would basically have to include a compiler with the program...and 
rewrite it for each platform to produce code for each processor and do 
the same optimizations that the development environments used to produce 
POV on those platforms do.
Function patterns are fairly fast now, there isn't a lot of reason to go 
through all this. There are some optimizations that could be done, 
though.

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Christopher James Huff
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