A think here on large include/declare...

When you only have one copy, don't use #declare on large objects, since
it causes double amount of memory to be used then... don't know why, but
that Is what I have found(using some trees)



Margus Ramst wrote:
> 
> Dave wrote:
> /.../
> >
> > The include file that #declare's them alone is
> > something like 90,000 lines...(mostly unions of triangle mesh's)....
> 
> I sent the output of my fur generator to a file (just cones); got a 20MB
> include file. Strangely enogh, when I #included it, the damn thing just
> started swapping like mad and never finished (seriously, I was afraid the HD
> would start to smoke soon); whereas when I let the script parse from the
> start it did the job (although with a lot of swapping). I wonder why.
> 
> Margus

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#declare life = rand(seed(42))*sqrt(-1);

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