Orchid XP v3 wrote:
>> I'm trying to make this thing run faster, as it needs to cover several 
>> square miles for a scene I'm working on.
> 
> Faster parse-time or render-time? (Or both?!)

Parse time is only a minute or so, render time is the killer.

And Simon, I don't use any supercomputers, just my venerable Athlon XP 
1700+ (1.4gHz) :)

It's currently covering about 2M square feet, which actually comes out 
to 1/12 of a square mile.  It traces in 12 minutes at 640x480, no AA, 
and uses 140MB of RAM.

However, since it instantiates a mesh to cover that territory, adding 
more area shouldn't use too much memory.  It's just the trace time that 
will suffer, and which I was hoping to cut down on.

...Chambers

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