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29 Jul 2024 22:20:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: function optimization question  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 19 Mar 2002 11:20:52
Message: <slrna9epb4.ejm.ron.parker@fwi.com>

> On 19 Mar 2002 10:41:16 -0500, Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
>> What, assembly-language-like bytecode isn't good enough for you?  Kids these
>> days...
> 
> My asked for my daughter. She likes building functions in macros and render in
> one pass ;-)
> 
>> I think at the moment that it's a bonus pack for patch writers.  I don't know
>> what the Team's plans are WRT the debugging features
> 
> http://news.povray.org/3c2caae6@news.povray.org

Well, there ya go then.  Straight from the horse's mouth.  Of course, since
it's just turned off with a compile-time switch, enterprising patch writers
will be able to turn it back on easily.

-- 
#macro R(L P)sphere{L F}cylinder{L P F}#end#macro P(V)merge{R(z+a z)R(-z a-z)R(a
-z-z-z a+z)torus{1F clipped_by{plane{a 0}}}translate V}#end#macro Z(a F T)merge{
P(z+a)P(z-a)R(-z-z-x a)pigment{rgbf 1}hollow interior{media{emission 3-T}}}#end 
Z(-x-x.2x)camera{location z*-10rotate x*90normal{bumps.02scale.05}}


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