In article <3e08dc58@news.povray.org>,
 "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> Actually, there is a lot more that could be done to be more (space)
> efficient in the current code...

This is true of many parts of the code, unfortunately...there's a lot of 
crud and wasted computation or memory in there (non-refracting 
transparency, for instance). And some parts are just painful to read...
It's certainly time for a rewrite...my recent patching (specifically new 
tessellation, glow, and proximity patches) has been affecting such wide 
areas of code I've been considering rewriting the shape handling to use 
C++ classes myself. Only problem is that it would make my patches 
incompatible with a lot of other patches and future official updates...

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