Fa3ien <fab### [at] yourshoesskynetbe> wrote:
> 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).

  There's a difference between something being inside the core C++ codebase,
and something JIT-compiled at runtime.

  Modern C++ compilers are quite good at optimizing, and it would be quite
hard for the JIT-compiler of any given scripting language to match that
level of optimization.

  Even if some JIT-compiler of some scripting language would achieve the
same speeds, the C++ compiler still has some advantages, such as being
able to inline certain functions for added speed (which naturally cannot
be done with JIT-compiled functions because they are unknown at the core
code compilation stage). Not that this matters a whole lot, but still.

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