Gilles Tran wrote:
> [...]
> 
> #declare i=0;
> #while (i<100000)
>     sphere{0,1 translate x*i*2 pigment{rgb x}}
>     #declare i=i+1;
> #end
> 
> Takes 19s with 3.6b1, 8s with 3.5
> Intel P4 1.7Gz, Windows XP HE SP1, 1GB RAM.

I did a quick test here on Linux and it parses in ~31s on 3.5 and 21s on 
3.6 here, that difference is at least partly due to different 
optimizations - i assume the same for your 3.5/3.6 difference observation.

Christoph

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