On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:19 AM, hernan<hgonza...@gmail.com> wrote: > My main frustration with Lilypond is speed. In my setup (Win-XP, P4 3.0Ghz, 1G > ram) to process a fairly simple scoresheet (2 or 3 pages) it takes about 8 > seconds. That might not seem a great deal, but it is really annoying when one > is > doing lots of retouching (edit one bit, compile, see results, edit again... > etc) > > Is there some recipe to speed things up? Are the performance bottlenecks > identified? > > I read in the main.cc source that the GUILE start-up is very time consumming. > I > wonder if some modification in the code could be done so that the GUILE > startup > occurs once for several compilation cycles, something as (pseudocode)
The startup time consumed by GUILE is less than 0.5 second. This will not really make a dent in the processing time. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user