In article <3a829438@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

>   The problem with dynamic data containers is that they usually take 
> extra memory (at least temporarily) and are sometimes slower than 
> fixed-sized data containers.

Well, the unlimited version will parse a little slower, since it will 
have to resize the array every so often, but unless you have some really 
huge blend maps it won't be noticeable, and it will only affect parse 
time. I took the approach of resizing the array when needed for 
simplicity.

I think color_maps will reallocate to an array of exactly the right size 
after parsing, but I'm not certain about the other blend_map types...but 
the memory waste for each bland_map won't be very bad even if there are 
unused entries.

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Christopher James Huff
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