POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.documentation.inbuilt : library_path limit : Re: library_path limit Server Time
26 Apr 2024 17:13:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: library_path limit  
From: Alain Martel
Date: 3 Jun 2023 11:30:41
Message: <647b5ca1$1@news.povray.org>
Le 2023-06-03 à 09:53, Thorsten a écrit :
> 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
> 
> 
> 
Want to access a file from the 100th library path : Look into the folder 
of path 1 to find the file. Not there. Look into folder of path 2 to 
find the file. Not there. Look into path 3 to find the file. Not there. 
... Look into path 100 to find the file. File found !

That will take some time.


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