Re: Incremental compiling

[David Kastrup]

Joe Neeman <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Vaughan McAlley
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     Following one of the tangents from the “Sibelius Software UK
>     office
>     shuts down thread”, here’s a potential algorithm for incremental
>     compiling. It’s only a suggestion: sorry if it’s flawed or you
>     don’t
>     like it!
>     
>
> The new ly:one-line-breaking page-breaking algorithm (in 2.15)
> basically skips the whole computationally intensive part of line and
> page breaking. Before getting too excited about aux files, you might
> like to try timing your scores with ly:one-line-breaking; it will give
> you some idea of how big the maximum possible speed-up would be.

I think people are more worried about the latency of partial
compilations than savings for complete compilations.

-- 
David Kastrup