Re: large source occupying on myfinal composition

[Urs Liska]

And of course you make heavy use of \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##t ?
So you don't have to wait so often ...

Best
Urs

Am 15.07.2010 21:04, schrieb Neil Thornock:
> Not that this is very *helpful* but when I've had this situation, I
> process the first half of the score separate from the second half,
> adjusting page numbers if needed.  I had to do this with my orchestra
> piece -- it ended up saving an hour of processing time!
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Graham Percival
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
>    
> > There are some attempts to optimize the speed; one simple patch
> > reduces the time required by something like 40%.  But you should
> > expect such problems from an unstable development version.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Graham
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 06:22:56PM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote:
> >      
> > >     Hello,
> > >       I finally finish my concert overture, which has just 250 measures, 34
> > >     pages. The compiling is a nightmare! When I used normal way, the computer
> > >     turned into a circumstance like it was about to crash. Then I used Process
> > >     Tamer, a small util program to reduce source wasting. At first, it's ok to
> > >     do anything while compiling, but after 5 minutes, the computer again
> > >     became very slow. Then I went away to listen to The Firebird. After its 45
> > >     minutes' music, Lilypond was still compiling. I checked the task manager,
> > >     and found it first used around 120M of RAM, but then continuous ascend to
> > >     over 520M, and then fall to 330M, and up to 472... After another about 50
> > >     minutes, The score was at last ready. The whole process took about 110
> > >     minutes!!! I'd like to know why Lilypond should use such a large memory,
> > >     since cpu is not taken too much (but instead, "system idle process.exe"
> > >     took very large percent (up to 94%) of cpu). I think I must buy a Win7
> > >     machine with 4 core cpu and 8gb RAM, otherwise I can't write a piece like
> > >     The Firebird, which will burn my current machine into dust :-)
> > >     Regards
> > >     Haipeng
> > >
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