POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.documentation.inbuilt : library_path limit : Re: library_path limit Server Time
29 Mar 2024 08:53:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: library_path limit  
From: Thorsten
Date: 3 Jun 2023 09:53:16
Message: <647b45cc$1@news.povray.org>
On 02.06.2023 16:43, jr wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Alain Martel <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
>> Le 2023-06-01 à 16:45, Leroy a écrit :
>>> ...
>>> I put 41 Library_Paths in an ini and ran short pov ...
>> Faster and simpler test : Make a scene that use something from the very
>> last library path.
> 
> thank you both.  did the latter, with 51 'library_path' lines in ini, no
> problems with 3.8-alpha or 3.7.0.8.  good to know, still, there has to be an
> "official" limit mentioned somewhere ?


There is no limit other than the addressable memory. So you should be 
safe up to about 2**58 path entries on a 64 bit system. I don't know how 
long those would take to parse though ;-)

Thorsten


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