William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> On 4/26/21 7:42 AM, William F Pokorny wrote:
> > Ref:
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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.

You seem to solve so many issues in that linux only branch, is there a chance
that some of those fix propagate to master or do they already? Sorry if this is
not what you were referring to at all, but  some unjustified overhead to the use
of separated pov macro files was mentioned numerous times by Clipka and
supposedly solved in his branch, just in case.

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