On Dec 10, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Keith OHara <k-ohara5...@oco.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 00:10:08 -0800, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> "Keith OHara" <k-ohara5...@oco.net> writes: >> >>> I timed one big score, Movement 1 of >>> <http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=1793> >>> 2.16.2 2.17.95 >>> WinXP 2m 30s 5m 10s >>> Fedora 1m 50s 1m 50s > >> Have you used the GUB-compiled binary package, or Fedora's built-in or a >> self-compiled package? I think that you probably can only make >> platform-specific comparisons if you use GUB for all. > > GUB-compiled packages in all cases give the same results as above. > > Most of the increase in time to set this score happened between 2.17.0 and .1 > 2.16.2 2m 30s > 2.17.0 2m 28s > 2.17.1 4m 06s > so it is probably the issue 2148 patch, use of outlines instead of boxes for > layout. > > I did speed-test that patch, but under Linux. Maybe the system calls to the > font server, to get outlines for the glyphs, take longer under Windows. > One easy way to avoid this is to turn off this feature with vertical-skylines = ##f for lots of grobs - I do this often for big scores when I want to compile them fast, but I reactivate the more accurate vertical skylines for the final version. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
