Raphael <roo### [at] localhostlocaldomain> wrote:
>         What is a token and why do I care how many there are?
>         And if I don't care why am I being told?

  Since the POV-Ray SDL is a turing-strong language, it's impossible
to predict in a general case how long it will take to parse and thus
show a percentage of how much has been parsed already (this is basic
computational theory).
  On the other hand, if POV-Ray shows no sign that it really is doing
something, it may look like it has hanged because nothing seems to be
happening.
  As a compromise POV-Ray shows the number of tokens it has parsed
so that the user gets visual feedback that it really is doing something
and how much it has done already.

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N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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