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29 Jul 2024 02:29:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Saving an object?  
From: Tyler Eaves
Date: 7 Apr 2003 10:44:28
Message: <3e918ecb@news.povray.org>
ABX wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:33:31 -0400, Tyler Eaves <tyl### [at] hotpopcom> wrote:
>> Is there any way to save an object (IE, a union of lots of other objects)
>> to disk and then read it back in?
>>
>> THis could potentially save me tons of parsing time if there's a way to
>> do it.
> 
> During first parsing you can parallel create file on drive with equivalent
> of content you creating for parsing. This is common habit in case of
> creation of meshes. For example look for HF_* macros in standard
> distribution. There is a parameter for choosing output to file.
> 
> ABX

Ack, hit send too soon.

What I was really hoping for was some sort of binary save,
ala photons. But that'll help, since my code is VERY loop intensive. 
Speaking of that, is there any real speed hit for unioning a number of
objcets together, as opposed to not unioning?


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