Re: LilyPond can't engrave 16 pages of music

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Sa., 22. Dez. 2018 um 02:46 Uhr schrieb Ben <address@hidden>:
>
>> What are your system specs? I can compile the file on my Linux Mint
>> x64 laptop with 16GB of RAM, rockin' an 8th gen i7 but it took about
>> 10 minutes almost. That seems very very slow.
>
> Well, I have a weak laptop. In the past I had some fast and powerfull
> laptops. All died after far too short time, with broken motherboard. I
> was told it makes no sense to repair.
> So I was very upset and decided not to buy such an expensive machine
> again. I now have one which was offered as a machine for starters. LOL
> The lifetime of this laptop already beats the ones from all previous
> powerful machines together.
>
> That said, I've two processors behaving like four
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU  N3510  @ 1.99GHz
> and
> 4 GB RAM
>
> Using LilyPond-2.19.82 on Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
>
>> Did you experience the same wait times?
>
> It lasted ~40minutes (I didn't observed the time exactly)
>
> I think:
> most of the time is spend in calculating spacing/line-/page-breaks.

Recently Werner committed a few fixes of typos with possibly ugly
consequences in the area of page breaking, so it might be worthwhile
crosschecking with current master.

-- 
David Kastrup