On 4/26/21 7:42 AM, William F Pokorny wrote:
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In working with Tor Olav's idea for a more accurate VAngle macro, I 
discovered the lower case identifier checking(1) is far too expensive 
when making a million calls to a macro with internal #local identifiers.

For now, I recommend configuration with --disable-no-lc-identifiers, if 
running scenes calling macros with internal identifiers a great many times.

Bill P.

(1) - I'm using c++11 regex at the moment. I've noted some complaints 
about performance of std regex, but whether it's that or just how our 
macros work in being re-read / interpreted on each call - I don't know. 
Might be significant expense is unavoidable and the case checking should 
not be the default behavior.

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