Re: Lilypond Daemon

[Graham Percival]

Peter Danenberg wrote:
>      There  was  talk some time ago about a persistent Lily-
> pond daemon that would  cut  down  the  initialization  time
> between documents; have there been any developments?

There have been no developments to lilypond itself.  This was a side 
project of mine, aimed at displaying computer-generated music in 
(approximate) realtime.  I have a working version in Perl (which can be 
spread across multiple machines for faster rendering), and a few months 
ago I started rewriting it in python, but this has been on hold while I 
sort out LSR.

If you're looking for a faster way to display a single document, then 
you'd need to do some scheme and/or C programming.  If you have 
specialized needs (like displaying a bunch of small pieces of music with 
no scheme or \paper{} variables) and don't mind getting your hands dirty 
with perl and/or python, then let's talk.

Cheers,
- Graham