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Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ? |
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Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:47:58 +0100 |
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Mike Solomon <address@hidden> writes:
> On Dec 10, 2013, at 11:27 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Mike Solomon <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On Dec 10, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Keith OHara <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I did speed-test that patch, but under Linux. Maybe the system
>>>> calls to the font server, to get outlines for the glyphs, take
>>>> longer under Windows.
>>>
>>> One easy way to avoid this is to turn off this feature with
>>> vertical-skylines = ##f for lots of grobs - I do this often for big
>>> scores when I want to compile them fast, but I reactivate the more
>>> accurate vertical skylines for the final version.
>>
>> Sigh. It's stuff like that which really makes me pessimistic about the
>> prospects of LilyPond as serious software.
>>
>> If its developers consider it unusable for serious work out of the box
>
> It’s the opposite - I use the out of the box settings for serious work
> - it’s the unserious playing around that I try to speed up.
How is "unserious playing around" not part of a serious creative work
flow?
> I’ve said on several occasions that I’m indifferent deactivating some
> or all of vertical skylines as a default. Several people are against
> this deactivation (notable Janek).
If we have more than a factor of 2 in timing involved between Linux and
Windows, then we do too much repeated processing in the font server.
> I’d be interested in gradations of UI options called perhaps:
>
> \faster-but-uglier
> \a-lot-faster-but-a-lot-uglier
> \ridiculously-fast-and-heinously-ugly
Nope. In this case, the answer is to cache frequently accessed
information instead of requesting it again and again.
We don't want to give people a choice between different ways in which
LilyPond will be bad. We just don't want LilyPond to be bad.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, (continued)
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, Mike Solomon, 2013/12/14
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/12/13
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, David Kastrup, 2013/12/13
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/12/13
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, Keith OHara, 2013/12/13
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/12/13
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, Keith OHara, 2013/12/13
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, Francisco Vila, 2013/12/11
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, Mike Solomon, 2013/12/10
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, David Kastrup, 2013/12/10
- Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, Mike Solomon, 2013/12/10
Re: anyone notice speed of 2.17.95 on Windows ?, Trevor Daniels, 2013/12/10