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2 Nov 2024 17:18:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reducing memory usage  
From: Brent G
Date: 29 Oct 2003 17:00:10
Message: <3fa0386a@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann wrote:

> David Jaquay wrote:
> 
>> While rendering the demo image stackergold.pov, I noticed something I
>> thought was odd.  The memory usage continued to grow as the image 
>> rendered.
>>  In my very-newbie limited-understanding mode, I would have thought that
>> POV would setup all the objects in memory up front, and use them to
>> generate the image as it went along.
> 
> 
> Your description lacks an important thing - what makes you think the 
> memory usage of POV-Ray grows while rendering, i don't know any version 
> of POV that shows the change in memory use while rendering.
> 
> Christoph
> 

*cough* task manager *cough*


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