? quoting Tracer Bullet
? quoting Crono
In short, physical computer hardware is no where near efficient enough.
According to a recent Scientific American article, today's fastest computers have approximately the same amount of processing power as a guppy. 
Mhh, I have two guppy's at home... shall I devote them to my compiling processes?
As for Unreal 3... it's not going to be the only one with such good lighting by the time it hits the shelves... or at least I hope others won't be very late... so let's just stick to additive geometry (wich, personally, I find much more intuitive. Perhaps because that's what I started with and never really liked playing with clay).
