Re: can't compile

[Graham Percival]

On 2/15/11, Nick Payne <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 15/02/11 09:28, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote:
>> I'm almost near the end of my second work (still about 80-100 bars not
>> written). The day before yesterday, when I was at bar 362, Lily could
>> still compile it within 2 hours.
...
> I commented out the \midi { } in the score block and ran another
> compilation. When I checked after a few minutes, System Monitor showed
> that Lilypond was using 1.1Gb of RAM

That sounds like a lot.  After 2.13.50, we added some optimizations.
If anybody sees the same behaviour from current git or 2.13.51, it
might be good to try constructing a Tiny example of the problem so
that programmers can investigate if it's a bug.

Cheers,
- Graham