In article <Xns### [at] netplexaussieorg>,
 ingo <ing### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

> I have, but don't remeber the exact difference, but mesh2 is indeed 
> faster.

The exact difference will depend on the mesh. The more vertices shared 
among multiple triangles, the better.


> But, there is one tricky thing, I also compared a completely non-
> optimised mesh2 with a maximal optimised mesh2. With optimised I mean have 
> aan as small as possible amount of vertices. The more optimised the slower 
> the parsing and the more it approached the speed of mesh.

I can't think of anything that would cause this. With the same number of 
triangles, fewer vertices should be better...duplicates waste space and 
need more computations to remove.

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