In article <3f6d951a@news.povray.org>,
 "Tim Nikias v2.0" <no_lights (@) digitaltwilight.de> wrote:

>  AFAIK,
> POV-Ray 4 (which is a long way off, and
> don't think about asking about it: it's finished
> when its finished, as always with POV-Ray,
> and I don't object) should have better support
> for plug-ins (in other words: other support
> than just POV-Script Include-Files) in order
> to make writing own enhancements easier
> and faster (as POV-Script is quiet slow).

And where did you hear this?

As you say, it's a long way off, too far off to say anything definite 
about plugin support. However, historically, native plugin support has 
never been implemented because there is no platform-independant way of 
doing it. POV could use precompiled bytecode plugins instead, but then 
there's no reason not to just include the source files: the bytecode 
compiler could (and almost certainly would) be built into POV. The 
current scripting language is slow because it is interpreted directly, 
compiling to bytecode first can be much faster, and would work just fine 
with the current system of include files.

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