Re: Lilypond speed

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:19:28AM +0000, hernan wrote:
> Is there some recipe to speed things up? Are the performance bottlenecks
> identified? 

There are some minor tweaks you can do.  I think they're currently
listed in LM 5.  "Speeding up typesetting" or something like that.

> I read in the main.cc source that the GUILE start-up is very time consumming. 
> I
> wonder if some modification in the code could be done so that the GUILE 
> startup
> occurs once for several compilation cycles, something as (pseudocode)

Yes, that's been done with the lilypond server.  Search the
lilypond-devel mailist for details.

Cheers,
- Graham