Re: faster lilypond rendering

[D Josiah Boothby]

> I produce a 70 pages conductor's score in less than half an hour (and 
> this is a *very* conservative estimate) on a two years old PC. True, it 
> has 2GB of memory, but other than that, it is to be considered a fairly 
> old beast by today's standards.

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> > And it takes forever on my 700Mhz PII!  So, cutting out processing of 
> > sections of music is of little use.  I'm really looking for faster 
> > rendering in general... The final phase of rendering a 28 page 
> > conductor's score takes hours.  This is much more than twice as long as 
> > other scores that are approximately half the length.

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> > FWIW, this could be caused by or at least exacerbated by poor memory 
> > usage in the conversion phase.  If the PS to PDF conversion loads the 
> > whole document into memory at once, this could all be the result of 
> > swap thrashing.

A two-year-old PC with 2G ram is not going to be at all equivalent to a 
700 Mhz PII, no matter how much ram is being used. As suggested, the small 
amount of memory is probably the culprit. It may be helpful to look 
through the manual or the list archives for how to disable the 
point-and-click feature, which adds information to almost all of the 
symbols. I seem to recall a thread or three discussing this, and if you 
are able to disable the point-and-click, you will probably get faster 
ps->pdf conversion (and faster processing in general).

Josiah