Nathan Kopp wrote:
> You could theoretically replace every element of a ray-tracer with
> interpreted (by interpreted I/we mean software-interpreted) code.  The
> question is, "would you want to?"  For example, the calculation for the
> example that you gave is computed MANY times as a scene is traced.  You'd
> only want to use an interpreted version if you needed to.  On the other
> hand, it would be nice to provide the option to use interpreted code if the
> desired feature was not implemented in the core functionality.  But you
> could do this fairly easily without using XML.
I never said that i was for XML Pov 8)
And, the difference between the approach you're proposing and just
interpreting next to 100% of the keywords is that you can change an
already existing keyword, but that's not a big advantage over the
additionnal speed that interpreting only what doesn't already exist
gives you...
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