Re: Lilypond speed

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:19 AM, hernan<address@hidden> wrote:
> My main frustration with Lilypond is speed. In my setup (Win-XP, P4 3.0Ghz, 1G
> ram) to process a fairly simple scoresheet (2 or 3 pages) it takes about 8
> seconds. That might not seem a great deal, but it is really annoying when one 
> is
> doing lots of retouching (edit one bit, compile, see results, edit again... 
> etc)
>
> Is there some recipe to speed things up? Are the performance bottlenecks
> identified?
>
> 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)

The startup time consumed by GUILE is less than 0.5 second.  This will
not really make a dent in the processing time.


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