POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.programming: #macro parsing speed (or the lack of it): Re: #macro parsing speed (or the lack of it)

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : #macro parsing speed (or the lack of it) : Re: #macro parsing speed (or the lack of it)		Server Time 28 Jul 2024 16:29:46 EDT (-0400)

From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 10 Jan 2000 09:54:15
Message: <3879f297@news.povray.org>

In article <3879e1a2@news.povray.org> , Nieminen Juha 
<war### [at] punarastascstutfi>  wrote:

>   This sounds crazy!

I know. It is not the best implementation, but with the current POV-ray it
is the best and most compatible one possible. Any better implementation
would likely require a lot of changes to the parser.

>   Why can't macros be loaded into memory (even as-is, or in a bytecode format)
> and parsed there? I think this would improve the speed a lot.

Yes, maybe for 4.0. Who knows :-)

     Thorsten

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