In article <3C415901.CFCC9CCD@avalon-net.co.il> , Eugene Arenhaus 
<eug### [at] avalon-netcoil>  wrote:

> No, I am talking about reusing object descriptions internally: like
> rendering 10000 copies of a sphere with only one actual sphere object
> kept in RAM.

Not useful as a general solution:  A sphere takes about 108 bytes in memory
right now.  A transformation matrix, 4*4 doubles takes 128 bytes.

I think like many before you, you made the mistake to first make some
general suggestions as if POV-Ray would do nothing other programs do but you
never really looked into the code to actually verify your suggestions make
sense.  It is a common problem with many people who made similar suggestions
before, and it usually creates on-topic threads as long as this one very
quickly, without any useful outcome :-(

    Thorsten

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