Thank you for confirming that I was right about the memory bug, Gilles.

"Gilles Tran" <tra### [at] inapginrafr> wrote in message
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> message de news:3fa681ab$1@news.povray.org...
>
> > On my 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 Windows XP service pack 1 workstation with 1 GB
> RAM
> > and no other applications running, it only took 7 minutes and 19 seconds
> for
> > the parse error to occur while processing frame 465.
>
> Confirmed on my PIII, NT4. Actually I just ran it at 160*120 with no file
> output.
> With 50 frames, the peak memory used reported by POV-Ray for the first
frame
> was 3165096 bytes and 154489167 for the last one = 50 x 3 Mb... It just
> doesn't release the memory used when loading the image. I've tried with
TGA,
> JPG and PNG.
>
> I suspect that the culprit is the image_pattern statement (or
> pigment_pattern{image_map{}} as it happens with this too). It doesn't
happen
> with a regular image_map{}.
> This explains both why I couldn't replicate it at first (I had tested the
> problem only with image_map) and why I had similar trouble with large
maps,
> since I'm using image_pattern a lot.
>
>
> G.
>
>

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