Re: font regression build regression

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 7:59 PM
Subject: font regression build regression


> Has anybody else seen a huge slow-down in building fonts?  They
> used to whiz by on my screen in a minute or so, but now it takes
> about 10 minutes, and more to the point, it involves a massive
> amount of disk activity.  My core2quad desktop couldn't play an
> mp3 file while building fonts with -j3 !
>
> Might it be building the same font multiple times (with different
> threads creating and deleting the same temporary files?), or are
> we generating fonts at twice the resolution of the previous one,
> or...?
>
> It's been a few weeks since I tried building stuff from scratch,
> which leaves a large window of work on the build system and fonts.


Is this with a straight "make" ?  I ran it yesterday and didn't see a 
slowdown, and I always check the time it takes.

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Phil Holmes