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On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 17:09:48 -0700, "Ray Gardener"
<ray### [at] daylongraphics com> wrote:
>Maybe we can borrow gcc's code here -- it's all open source, right?
GCC is GPL. GPL is not compatible with the POV license. In fact,
the POV license isn't even technically open source.
>As for Java, Perl, and any other interpretation system:
>I have to pass. No interpreter is fast enough; I need
>every last machine cycle available, when you consider that
>the code may need to be called for every pixel on the
>rendered image.
Java is nearly as fast as compiled code if you have a JIT.
Neither system is interpreted, though; they're both p-code
systems, just like older Visual Basic stuff.
>Read the stuff about 'slope' in the SuperPatch docs.
>Pretty heavy; it may do everything I need. So when
>does this great stuff get merged into the offical POV?
I don't know which parts will be added, but a bunch of the
stuff in the superpatch will make it into version 3.5.
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