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30 Jul 2024 18:17:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reducing memory usage  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 29 Oct 2003 11:52:02
Message: <co7571-0vn.ln1@triton.imagico.de>
David Jaquay wrote:
> While rendering the demo image stackergold.pov, I noticed something I
> thought was odd.  The memory usage continued to grow as the image rendered.
>  In my very-newbie limited-understanding mode, I would have thought that
> POV would setup all the objects in memory up front, and use them to
> generate the image as it went along.

Your description lacks an important thing - what makes you think the 
memory usage of POV-Ray grows while rendering, i don't know any version 
of POV that shows the change in memory use while rendering.

Christoph

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