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  Re: "Bad allocation" in POV-Ray RC3 for WIndows  
From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Date: 15 Apr 2011 17:40:01
Message: <web.4da8ba99ed9ecc0c734aecd0@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 13.04.2011 00:27, schrieb Tor Olav Kristensen:
>
> > Perhaps it would be a good thing to make the vtransform() internal to POV-Ray
> > instead of just a macro (?)
>
> It is quite an important macro, so as long as macros in .inc files are
> the performance killers they currently are, it might indeed be a good
> idea. Then again, maybe it would be better to put some effort into
> speeding up .inc file macros in the first place.

Yes, I agree.
But the vtransform() macro is a bit difficult to speed up ;)

> As for the runaway memory consumption you discovered, that's obviously
> not limited to vtransform(), so a fix is needed anyway (and is actually
> already implemented by now, waiting to be released).

That's good to hear.

--
Tor Olav
http://subcube.com


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