Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Eric Buddington wrote:
> > So in short, the source file is opened about 5.997 times for each data line
> > read. Poking through the POV source hasn't enlightened me yet. Can anyone
> > explain this (the behaviour, not my failure to understand the source)?
>
> http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/243/#s02_02_02_08_02
>
> Christoph

I was indeed calling a macro defined in the main file. #declaring the number
I needed in a separate variable instead of calling the macro speeded parsing
up in a most gratifying way, and cut the number of open()s down to 2.

I've been quite impressed (and grateful) this last week with the quality of
responses I've gotten from these groups. Thank you!

-Eric

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