POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.programming: #macro parsing speed (or the lack of it): Re: #macro parsing speed (or the lack of it)

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From: Nieminen Juha
Date: 10 Jan 2000 08:41:54
Message: <3879e1a2@news.povray.org>

Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
: When a macro is in another file POV-Ray opens and
: closes that file _each_ time the macro is invoked.

  This sounds crazy!

  Why can't macros be loaded into memory (even as-is, or in a bytecode format)
and parsed there? I think this would improve the speed a lot.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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