In article <3d9d9c8b@news.povray.org>, "Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> 
wrote:

> Killing cats time - why can't the memory optimisation used for meshes be 
> applied to repeat use of all unions in general?

The way it is implemented for meshes is very specific to meshes. It 
wasn't implemented more generally because it wasn't as necessary for 
other objects, the biggest improvement came for meshes. It hasn't been 
added because doing so would be quite difficult with the existing source 
code.
It could easily be added in a redesign and rewrite, though. Such a 
rewrite is planned for 4.0.

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