slowdown in 2.5.15?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Mac OS 10.3.8, Lilypond 2.5.15 (thanks to Matthias Neracher)
> 
> I have noticed a dramatic increase in the time to process a lilypond 
> file compared to 2.5.13. A piano piece of 193 measures takes just short 
> of 9 minutes to process (lilypond blitz.ly) on a 1 GHz G4 iMac with no 
> other apps running.
> 
> This is between 4-7 times slower than 2.5.13 and 2.4.14, running on the 
> same machine.

I have a pretty good hunch what causes it. Take the line

        (spacing-procedure . ,Ledger_line_spanner::set_spacing_rods)

from define-grobs.scm

Can you send me your file (private mail is fine), so I can try to
rewrite the offending routine?  Thanks

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