I have found something _really_ strange with MegaPov 0.4:

I made a test scene that uses two large mesh objects (or, more
precisely: bicubic_patch objects exported from sPatch). These two
objects take long time to parse, and thus would be very effective to
#declare at the start of an animation to eliminate the need to parse the
files containing the objects at subsequent frames.

When using labels & persistent variables, MegaPov renders 11(!)  times
slower - here are the render time stats when not using persistent
variables:

Time For Trace/Frame:    0 hours  0 minutes   6.5 seconds (6 seconds)

...and here the render time stats when using persistent variables:

Time For Trace/Frame:    0 hours  1 minutes   9.0 seconds (69 seconds)

I'm not kidding here - it is _that_ much slower. My only question is:
why? (Note: I'm new to MegaPov - so please forgive me if this is a well
known bug/feature)

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Mikael Carneholm
Dep. of Computer Science and Business Administration


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