hi,

William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> On 10/26/21 9:57 AM, jr wrote:
> > with 100k sphere centre and radius records for instance, POV-Ray needs around
> > one second for the writing and the same for the read back.  Filed() comes in at
> > around eight seconds write and ten seconds read.
> >
>
> I'm a little surprised at the magnitude of the slow down. Are you timing
> with a v3.8 beta or something else? I'm expecting the files are all on a
> ramdisk?

the reading did not surprise much, every item returned is "handled" three times,
but the (lack of) write performance I do not understand.


> Thinking aloud...
>
> If a povr branch, ...

ah, no, "stock" alpha.9945627.  fyi (snipped the context below), all POV-Rays
and povr etc built with '-O2'.


> I'd be willing to play a little with your 100K spheres case - if you
> want?

thanks, sure.  have attached a reader and writer scene.  for the writer can use
'declare=N=number' to create number records, for both scenes can use
'declare=FM=true' to use Filed() instead of "raw" directives.


regards, jr.

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