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Re: Taking shortcuts
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:47:10 GMT
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Tore Eriksson wrote:
> My first PC had no hard drives, just two 360 kb floppy drives. One
> for the OS and the other for applications and documents. My second PC
> had a 10 Mb hard drive that took the physical space of two 5 1/4"
> drives. The Michelangelo virus took its real-time clock app...
But that was a long time ago :-)
Nowadays we *do* have an awful lot of disk space, and don't really have to
squeeze the files.
OTOH, every 'unnecessary' byte to read will take time, again and again while
rendering, unless the rendering program is compiling the .dat file into some
internal representation at the first read.
OTTH, I believe all the programs do this, the original LDRAW.EXE being the
exception (possibly, I don't have the source).
So, I would view overlap as an error.
--
Anders Isaksson
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| (...) I'm not worried about disk space so much as I am worried about render/move/edit time. Unnecessary polygons, even after being read in and converted into internal models, take time to process. I think you can see the difference in POVray render (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) My first PC had no hard drives, just two 360 kb floppy drives. One for the OS and the other for applications and documents. My second PC had a 10 Mb hard drive that took the physical space of two 5 1/4" drives. The Michelangelo virus took its (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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