> High!
> 
> During Christmas, I tried to generate a spherical mesh from a 2000 x
> 1000 bumpmap of the
> Moon... and after returning from my relatives, I had to realize that
> parsing bogged down the
> computer completely! After 2 days and 15 minutes, only 270 lines of the

> bumpmap had been
> parsed (I added a #warning statement giving the current line number)!
> [...]

Your code must be quite inefficient in this case, generating a mesh of 2 

million vertices in SDL should be possible without too much trouble. 
Try the HF_Sphere macro in 'shapes.inc'.

> 
> So I ask you whether it could be possible to interrupt and resume the
> parsing - as I live in a one-room flat with no chance to
> stow away the computer at night, and the fans are loud enough to keep m
e
> from sleeping.

You get used to it after a while...

Interruptible parsing would be extrmely difficult to implement.

Christoph

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