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From: tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Bug in David Wecker's uRay
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Date: 15 Feb 91 17:14:08 GMT
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dds3769@cs.rit.edu (Derek D Simmons) writes:

> 
>     Does any body know why David Wecker's uRay crashes when you have
>     around nine hundred objects?
> 
>                   -Derek Simmons    dds3769@ulta.isc.rit.edu

One guess everybody already thought of (I bet) is "how big is your stack?" 
Assuming you're not running outta ram, you might still be running outta 
stack since ray tracers and other highly recursive codes tend to eat stack
like candy.


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