In article <41163f3c$1@news.povray.org> , Nicolas Calimet 
<pov### [at] freefr>  wrote:

>  Interesting.  But also surprising (to me).
>  Could you explain why it takes an order of magnitude longer to
> jump to a function via a pointer as compared to a direct reference ?
> (note: I'm not very knowledgeable in low-level programming, just a
> tiny idea of some assembly instructions).

It should not at all.

    Thorsten

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