Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

[Patrick McCarty]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Patrick McCarty wrote Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:34 PM
>>
>> Is the large cache file being rebuilt mistakenly (on some Windows
>> systems)?
>
> Yes; that is the problem exactly.  Every other case of slowness on Windows,
> both XP and Vista, which has been examined closely has resulted in the
> same conclusion.  The question is, what causes it to happen?

Not sure, but this fontconfig bug report looks really interesting, and
could be related:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18195

Unfortunately, there are no responses yet, but it was only reported recently.

-Patrick