POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.documentation.inbuilt : library_path limit : Re: library_path limit Server Time
18 Apr 2024 20:57:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: library_path limit  
From: Leroy
Date: 4 Jun 2023 12:50:00
Message: <web.647cc06c73eed075437caa8f712fc00@news.povray.org>
Thorsten <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> On 02.06.2023 16:43, jr wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > Alain Martel <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:

> >>> ...
> >>> 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

That is what I figured after I went to 97 library_paths with 61 objects and
functions.
Parse time was 7.03 sec.


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