POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : parsing time vs. image output size : Re: parsing time vs. image output size Server Time
4 Oct 2024 11:20:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: parsing time vs. image output size  
From: Spider
Date: 4 Apr 1999 14:44:01
Message: <370736BA.E99E83D7@bahnhof.se>
No, a larger image shouldn't increase the parsing-time.

in the parsing, the #while loops are the thing that takes time(and recursion),
and theese aren't affected by a larger image size. so the parsing time shouldn't
be affected by the output image.


Josh English wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if a scene took longer to parse if the scene output size
> was larger... I can tell that it is during parsing that the memory usage
> peaks, and during rendering it doesn't use that much memory, but I was
> just wondering.  The scene I'm working on for the IRTC is taking a long
> time to parse and when I assigned 50000 k of RAM to the application it
> filled the bar almost completely (Yes, this is on a Mac) Fortunately I
> can assign up to 110000 of RAM to the application right now, but I know
> the scene will get more complicated with more objects.
> 
> Josh English
> eng### [at] spiritonecom

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