Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> Perhaps someone on a non-Windows platform should test the mesh parsing too.

Mesh parsing is about the same here as the loop, i only tested a very 
small mesh that only took about 5 seconds so it is not very accurate but 
3.6 is slightly faster than 3.5.

> Actually I'm back to 3.1 as far as parsing time is concerned :D

3.1 is indeed much faster for the loop here as well (the mesh was a 
mesh2 so i could not test it), but the changes from 3.1 to 3.5 were 
fairly large so this is quite understandable (more features -> slower 
parsing).

> I should add that this seems to affect only the parsing time, not the render
> time. I noticed that it's a different compiler too.

You could try Megapov 0.7 and Megapov 1.0 in comparison.  You should 
also notice that with parsing times of only a few seconds you should 
always run the test several times because speed of file access will 
strongly vary.

Christoph

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