Re: Lilypond benchmarking

[Keith OHara]

Phil Holmes <email <at> philholmes.net> writes:

> Summary: 2.12 was very slow and unreliable on large scores.  2.14, 2.16 and 
> 2.17.26 are similar: it look like current devel is slower where there's a 
> lot of interleaving of notes and dynamics to be done, which is probably to 
> be expected with the more sophisticated skylining code.  I'd conclude there 
> is no fundamental performance problem with our current build.
> 


I assume your tables show the numbers of minutes required to typeset
the input ?

While reviewing Mike's skyline patch, we saw similar changes in times
https://codereview.appspot.com/5626052#msg131

The more text that needs to be outlined, the more time required.
We can save time by skipping skylines around text 
https://codereview.appspot.com/5626052#msg140