> Fa3ien <fab### [at] yourshoesskynetbe> wrote:
>> If the shaders are compiled on the fly before rendering (which is, IMMSMW,
>> what POV-Man did), could they really be slower than hard-coded ones ?
> 
>   It assumes that the shaders can be compiled and that the compiler will
> be able to optimize them in the same way is the C++ compiler optimizes the
> current algorithms written in C++.

The most fundamental (and time-consuming) algorithms could be hard-coded
(ior, fractal noise, turbulence, whatever...) to gain the most speed.

And if the shader language is, in fact, an existing language, like C or Ruby,
or any smart choice, making use of POV-Ray-specific classes, efficient
compilation shouldn't be a problem (I think).

Fabien.

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