Re: lilypond slowness?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

2007/11/29, Simon Dahlbacka <address@hidden>:
> I have had a break working with lilypond, but I just downloaded 2.11.35
> (running on Vista x86), and find it *very* slow compared to my recollection.
>
> We're talking close to thee digit numbers for a simple monophonic score with
> less than 20 bars.. This cannot be right? What am I missing here?
>
> running with -V seems to indicate that it's "Building font database" every
> time, how can I avoid this? ..and yes, I have installed it to a directory
> that does not require admin privileges.

Unfortunately, I don't have a vista machine handy to test this.

Can you check if older versions (2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, etc.) exhibit
the same behavior?  If no, can you use bisection to figure out which
version introduced the slowness?

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