In article <39a24878@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

> : True, but guess which solution runs much faster?  Growing the stack rarely
> : causes much overhead, while each call to malloc will take noticeable time.
>
>   But you don't have to call malloc() for each item you want to put on the
> "stack". You can reserver space for more than one item at once.

Yes, if you have the memory resources to burn.  And POV-Ray isn't exactly
the most memory efficient program already.  Or, in  general, imagine the
programmers of the embedded system in your mobile phone would use resources
that carelessly.


     Thorsten


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