COMPOUND for boolean operations ... is it useful ???????

Hello

I am trying to use "compound" for boolean operations,
hoping that it would speed up.

I created a box and rotated it 150 times about the origin.
Made a compound out of it.
Then tried FUSE with a solid cylinder.
The operation fails.
It works if I fuse 50 copies compound with the cylinder.

Is it advisable to use COMPOUND for such operations ?
The TEST harness script is attached below ( RUN IT IN "FRONT" view")
best regards

- Prasad

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#
# 17/1/2005
# NOTE : Run this script in FRONT view
#
box b 0 0 0 100 10 5
#tcopy b b1

# if the loop is executed for 50 times, the FUSE operation
# is successful on the compound and the solid cylinder
#
for {set i 1} {$i tcopy b b$i
#ttranslate b$i ($i)*10.0 0.0 0.0
trotate b$i 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 $i*2.4
}

compound all
for {set j 1} {$j add b$j all
#whatis $j$k
}
checkshape all

#mycyl c 0 -5 0 0 15 0 90
pcylinder c 90 50
trotate c 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 90
ttranslate c 0 25 0

fuse result c all
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