Re: faster lilypond rendering

[Ramana Kumar]

> Have you tried the technique in the docs at
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/user/lilypond/Skipping-corrected-music.html

ah fantastic - that is almost what i had in mind with caching..
it doesn't create a whole document at the end, using the previous
data, but it's still good for quick checking of new bars at the end of
a score without the overhead of regenerating the entire score. thanks
for that.

On 2/14/06, Cameron Horsburgh <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ramana Kumar wrote:
> > what about caching the lilypond output in such a way that small
> > changes to the ly code don't result in redoing all the parsing
> > again... i mean say if someone only adds a bar to the end maybe some
> > of the work wouldn't need to be redone?
> > i understand lilypond does some work on the whole score which needs to
> > be redone no matter how similar the new input file is... but there may
> > be ways around this, or ways to speed it up.
> >
> > On 2/14/06, Erik Sandberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >>Citerar Ben Fisher <address@hidden>:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Running lilypond seems to take a while on my machine. For a project I'm
> >>>working on it'd be nice to have much faster time to output. Maybe some of
> >>>this time is spent for lilypond to load all of its fonts and set up.
> >>>
> >>>Instead of running lilypond.exe several times, is there a way to start
> >>>lilypond so that it stays active? For example, it would sit and capture 
> >>>from
> >>>stdin, creating a pdf/or png of the output whenever an eof is fed in, but
> >>>only quitting upon recieving a certain code? I'm willing to do c++ coding 
> >>>if
> >>>necessary.
> >>>
> >>>Or, ideally, a standard windows dll of lilypond that would only need to get
> >>>set up once.
> >>>
> >>>And if it were possible to do this, would the time saving be significant?
> >>
> >>I think the only time that would be saved, is some of the setup which is 
> >>done
> >>before lily displays "Parsing...". There was a discussion on lilypond-devel
> >>recently, and IIRC Han-Wen thought that it would be rather easy to 
> >>implement a
> >>lilypond daemon, but that the time savings would be rather small.
> >>
> >>Erik
> >>
> >>
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> Have you tried the technique in the docs at
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/user/lilypond/Skipping-corrected-music.html
>
> I haven't tried it, but it seems to do something similar to what you're
> after.
>
> Cameron
>
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