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> On my 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 Windows XP service pack 1 workstation with 1 GB
RAM
> and no other applications running, it only took 7 minutes and 19 seconds
for
> the parse error to occur while processing frame 465.

Confirmed on my PIII, NT4. Actually I just ran it at 160*120 with no file
output.
With 50 frames, the peak memory used reported by POV-Ray for the first frame
was 3165096 bytes and 154489167 for the last one = 50 x 3 Mb... It just
doesn't release the memory used when loading the image. I've tried with TGA,
JPG and PNG.

I suspect that the culprit is the image_pattern statement (or
pigment_pattern{image_map{}} as it happens with this too). It doesn't happen
with a regular image_map{}.
This explains both why I couldn't replicate it at first (I had tested the
problem only with image_map) and why I had similar trouble with large maps,
since I'm using image_pattern a lot.


G.

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