In article <zsD### [at] econymdemoncouk> , Mike Williams 
<mik### [at] nospamplease>  wrote:

> The given example file (http://news.povray.org/3bdf2d82@news.povray.org)
> runs a little slower on my machine in beta 9 than it did under beta 8:-
>
> beta 6          29 secs
> beta 7   2 mins  6 secs (reported as a bug)
> beta 8   1 min  51 secs ("fixed", but obscured by other bugs)
> beta 9   2 mins  6 secs ("fixed")

Note that the usage of evaluate changed between beta 6 and beta 9.

Anyway, the given function is too complex to say there wasn't simply another
change that simply causes the slowdown you see.  It might never have been
influenced by the real bug in there, as the bug has changed otherwise
evaluate could not work correct at all, which it does.

    Thorsten

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