0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456 Michael Käppler wrote:
> I'm "suffering" from enormous compiling durations on large files. > With "large" I mean a file with about 250 measures and seven > staves per system. The last time I compiled the file completely > (without using showLastLength) I did it overnight, since after > one and a half hour Lilypond still was "Preformatting graphical > elements..." (Don't know what's the correct term in the english > version) I know that's my laptop is way too old to do such > complex task quickly - (Athlon XP 2600, 256MB Ram, OpenSUSE 11.1) > but are there general suggestions which help to speed up the > compiling process? An hour and a half sounds much, much longer than it should be taking. Here are some thoughts: Maybe try using \pointAndClickOff ? I don't know if point-and-click slows things down, but it certainly increases filesize. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Point-and-click Also, you can temporarily comment out any instances of keep-inside-line since it's a known time-hog. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Avoiding-tweaks-with-slower-processing Is your computer slow with other programs? Could you have a computer virus? Maybe 256MB RAM is too small. Maybe you could try an external laptop RAM stick? RAM sizes of 4,096MB are not uncommon these days. Hope this helps. - Mark _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
