Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote...
> Nathan Kopp <Nat### [at] koppcom> wrote:
> : It would not be practical to compile to true machine code, since that
would
> : require a platform-specific compiler to exist inside POV
>
>   I didn't mean that either. I was talking about povray's own "machine
code"
> which it can interpret. Just like perl or java have.
>   This kind of "machine code" has the advantage that it's a lot easier to
> parse and interpret.

So by "machine code" you mean "virtual machine code".  Like a Java VM.  Or,
in this case, a POV VM.

-Nathan

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Nathan Kopp <Nat### [at] koppcom> wrote:
: So by "machine code" you mean "virtual machine code".  Like a Java VM.  Or,
: in this case, a POV VM.

  Yes. I should have used that term from the very beginning but it didn't
come to my mind.

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