In article <3e5136ff@news.povray.org>, "Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> 
wrote:

> The following piece of code has two sections. The first section parses
> in 18 seconds on this computer (p3 650m). The second section parses in
> only 9 seconds!!

Yeah, the scene description language is slow. For comparison, CSDL 
managed about 250000 simple loops per second on my 350MHz G3 (if I 
remember right...). I haven't tested Sapphire, but it should be even 
faster.

The difference is that the main POV script isn't compiled to bytecodes, 
it is parsed directly, which means a lot of string operations and 
jumping around the source files.

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