RE: Long compilation times

[Nick Payne]

I tried it on my box (HP dx1550, AMD dual core with 4Gb RAM), and it took
267 seconds to build. By comparison, to build the score from the Mutopia
source files for the adagio from Brandenburg #1 (about 40 bars for 12
instruments) takes 22 seconds.

Nick

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> Behalf Of John Mandereau
> Sent: Monday, 12 January 2009 03:29
> To: Cameron Horsburgh
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> Subject: Re: Long compilation times
> 
> Cameron Horsburgh a écrit :
> > I'm running a 2.4 GHz P4 with 1.25 Gig of Ram. The machine is aging,
> > but it should be up to this challenge. I've noticed scores compile
> > much quicker on much lower specced machines, so I'm suspecting
> > something peculiar to my installation, but I don't know where to
> look.
> 
> The exclusive use of spacer rests may be a bit perverse to process by
> LilyPond; is it faster if you replace all spacer rests s1 with full
> rests
> R1?  I think this has little to do with your installation.
> 
> 
> > Does anybody have any idea what could be wrong? Or is it normal to
> > take 13 minutes to process a score with virtually no music?
> 
> On my Intel 64 bit box, I get it to compile in 94 seconds:
> 
> real  1m33.675s
> user  1m28.378s
> sys   0m0.721s
> 
> This is much for such a simple score.
> 
> 
> > Anyway, here's the file in question:
> >     ragged-last-bottom = t
> >     ragged-bottom = t
> 
> What do you expect to get with these settings?
> 
> John
> 
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