How 'bout, when POV parses a scene, it only loads macros and definitions
into memory if they're used. Because a lot of people make
general-purpose includes and don't use half of it for a particular
scene. This probably isn't worth it for smaller scenes, so maybe a
switch to turn it on, and normally it loads 'em all.
Then there's the whole wacky idea of a POV-script compiler, but I
realize that's probably much too much to ask :-)

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David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
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> How 'bout, when POV parses a scene, it only loads macros and definitions
> into memory if they're used.

Hmm, presumably, you'd have to parse each scene at least twice. The first
parse to find out what elements are actually used, the second to then check
the syntax of used macros etc.

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Tom Melly wrote:

> Hmm, presumably, you'd have to parse each scene at least twice. The first
> parse to find out what elements are actually used, the second to then check
> the syntax of used macros etc.

Yes, but the first one would be just a real quick run-through...

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David Fontaine wrote:
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> How 'bout, when POV parses a scene, it only loads macros and definitions
> into memory if they're used. Because a lot of people make
> general-purpose includes and don't use half of it for a particular
> scene. This probably isn't worth it for smaller scenes, so maybe a
> switch to turn it on, and normally it loads 'em all.

My latest IRTC entry uses about 6 Megs or so of memory.  My macro files
occupy less than 1% of this.  I think the POV team has bigger fish to fry.

Regards,
John

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John VanSickle wrote:

> David Fontaine wrote:
> >
> > How 'bout, when POV parses a scene, it only loads macros and definitions
> > into memory if they're used. Because a lot of people make
> > general-purpose includes and don't use half of it for a particular
> > scene. This probably isn't worth it for smaller scenes, so maybe a
> > switch to turn it on, and normally it loads 'em all.
>
> My latest IRTC entry uses about 6 Megs or so of memory.  My macro files
> occupy less than 1% of this.  I think the POV team has bigger fish to fry.

That is why it must be turned on first. I assume your scene didn't use LEGO
elements... (hint hint)

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