On 30 Jun 2000 16:30:58 -0400, Ron Parker wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:10:02 -0700, SamuelT wrote:
>>Okay, I tried it, but there are memory issues. It seems the memory
>>consumption increases exponentially with every sphere that is added. Too many
>>spheres and I crash. Here is my code:
>
>Interesting.  Does the behaviour persist if you use #declare instead of
>#local?

By the way, I don't get this behavior when I run your code on MegaPOV 0.3.
It uses 160K per 100 iterations of the loop, plus about 80K standing still,
I ran it for 1000 spheres with no problem; memory usage was 1670616 bytes.
It might be a bug in recent MegaPOVs.  I don't have one to test with.
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