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.

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