Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-26 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 26/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sven Axelsson wrote: > > > Well, duh. The file is called .font.cache-1 and is stored in the root > > of the current user profile (usually c:\Documents and > > Settings\Username). The one I have hasn't been modified since August, > > and rem

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-26 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Sven Axelsson wrote: Well, duh. The file is called .font.cache-1 and is stored in the root of the current user profile (usually c:\Documents and Settings\Username). The one I have hasn't been modified since August, and removing it does not cause Lilypond to recreate the file. I've tried with (al

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-24 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > Jan, do you know where the USERPROFILE variable should come from? No. It might be set in several placen in the registry and may be overridden in a command shell. It might be built-in, but the documentation seems too vague to tell http://www.microsoft.com/resourc

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd. There were such files (most of them empty) in various installation directories. I removed them all, and ran Lily in two different ways, there seems to be no font cache file created :-( Performance is not significantly different from what I'm used to, but typically,

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-22 Thread darius
Odd. There were such files (most of them empty) in various installation directories. I removed them all, and ran Lily in two different ways, there seems to be no font cache file created :-( Performance is not significantly different from what I'm used to, but typically, it does *not* spend 30' doi

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-22 Thread Darius Blasband
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you see what happens if you run lilypond with administrator rights? I only ever run with admin rights. XP is pretty unusable if you don't... haha. In that case, the real question is where the cache is going on platforms that don't ru

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-22 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 21/11/05, Sven Axelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sven Axelsson wrote: > > > On 21/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I believe that this is related to a FontConfig problem. You can verify > > >>this, by

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-22 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you see what happens if you run lilypond with administrator rights? I only ever run with admin rights. XP is pretty unusable if you don't... haha. In that case, the real question is where the cache is going on platforms that don't run that slowly. Darius, can yo

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-21 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 21/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sven Axelsson wrote: > >>It's understandable that reading things takes time. The strange thing is > >>that this should all be cached, so second runs are much quicker. Can you > >>check whether the font directory are changed (files (dis)appe

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Sven Axelsson wrote: It's understandable that reading things takes time. The strange thing is that this should all be cached, so second runs are much quicker. Can you check whether the font directory are changed (files (dis)appearing, timestamps that change?) regularly? Also, there should be a f

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-21 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 21/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sven Axelsson wrote: > > On 21/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I believe that this is related to a FontConfig problem. You can verify > >>this, by running the console version from cmd.exe and invoking it as > >> >

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Sven Axelsson wrote: On 21/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe that this is related to a FontConfig problem. You can verify this, by running the console version from cmd.exe and invoking it as lilypond --verbose bla.ly Yes indeed. Lilypond sits at Initializing Fon

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-21 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 21/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that this is related to a FontConfig problem. You can verify > this, by running the console version from cmd.exe and invoking it as > >lilypond --verbose bla.ly Yes indeed. Lilypond sits at Initializing FontConfig... for at l

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:42:46 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is it globally slow, or is there a specific part which is recognizably responsible for the poor performance ? (Generating PS/PS2PDF/generating MIDI/parsing/analysis...) D. I don't believe it's the compiling

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-20 Thread darius
Is it globally slow, or is there a specific part which is recognizably responsible for the poor performance ? (Generating PS/PS2PDF/generating MIDI/parsing/analysis...) D. Quoting Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>the problem is that most of the Windows var

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem is that most of the Windows variants are just as quick. There is some weird interaction between your windows version and our compile. I'm using Windows XP SP2, the latest, and installed only a few weeks ago. Yes, I have that too, but It Works For Me. -

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably the same problem as http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-09/msg00207.html Unfortunately, I don't think this problem has been resolved, and no one is willing to trace this problem to its roots, or so it seems. Well, I understand all

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Lilypond 2.7.17 on Windows, native binary. I've been using it on Windows since the Cygwin days, but I notice that the native binaries are INCREDIBLY SLOW. It takes close to 30-60 seconds to compile any file, even test.ly. I r

Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
NK wrote: I am using Lilypond 2.7.17 on Windows, native binary. I've been using it on Windows since the Cygwin days, but I notice that the native binaries are INCREDIBLY SLOW. It takes close to 30-60 seconds to compile any file, even test.ly. I remember Cygwin only use

lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

2005-11-19 Thread NK
I am using Lilypond 2.7.17 on Windows, native binary. I've been using it on Windows since the Cygwin days, but I notice that the native binaries are INCREDIBLY SLOW. It takes close to 30-60 seconds to compile any file, even test.ly. I remember Cygwin only used to take a