Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

[Bailey James E.]

Am 12.11.2008 um 21:02 schrieb Jonathan Kulp:

> Francisco Vila wrote:
> > 2008/11/12 Jonathan Kulp <address@hidden>:
> > > For the sake of testing, I booted into my Vista Home Premium  
> > > partition and
> > > installed the latest Lilypond binary from the download page.  I  
> > > ran a
> > > lilypond file once and it took about 90 seconds, then ran it a  
> > > second time
> > > and it took more than 60 seconds.  The same file on Linux compiles  
> > > in less
> > > than 2 seconds.  Honestly I don't know how anyone uses Vista as  
> > > their main
> > > OS.  This is a reasonably powerful laptop less than 6 months old  
> > > with 2GB of
> > > RAM and a dual-core processor.  I have all the aero eye candy  
> > > disabled and
> > > it still runs 10x slower than the 8-year-old Gateway box in my  
> > > office
> > > running Ubuntu 8.04.  Man.  Glad to be back on the Linux side :)
> > Added to my FAQ. http://lilypondwiki.tuxfamily.org/index.php? 
> > title=FAQ
> > Any ideas for a better A to this Q?
>
> Your answer has one tip (also mentioned previously in this thread)  
> that I haven't tried--I haven't deleted the fontconfig cache.  I'll  
> try to find it, delete, reinstall, and run again to see if it  
> improves performance.

That would slow it down. Lilypond creates the fontconfig cache the  
first time it runs. Deleting it would mean that lilypond would need to  
recreate it, thus increasing processing time.

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