POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV Wishlist : Re: POV Wishlist Server Time
3 Aug 2024 20:16:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV Wishlist  
From: Tyler Eaves
Date: 19 Mar 2004 17:37:19
Message: <pan.2004.03.19.22.39.10.513001@NOSPAMml1.net>
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:52:37 -0500, Christopher James Huff wrote:

> 
> Then change functions to allow more complex constructs. Lua and Python 
> would be too slow for most of the things functions are used for anyway. 
> The POV-Ray scene description language does some pretty specialized 
> things...ever try to describe a scene in another programming language? 
> Gets messy, fast.

Take a look at psyco. It's essentially a JIT compiler for Python. For
really mathy stuff speed is often not that far from C.


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