Re: Speed tips, again, for extremely large scores?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Michael Käppler <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have also a file which I am unable to compile because it doesn't finish
> even in 12 hours and more. In the thread you mentioned I was pointed to my
> insufficient memory size. However, what I notice is that compiling time
> seems to increase in an exponential way with larger scores. Is this only a
> result of my bad system specs?
>
> Three points:
>
> 1. It would be very interesting to create a "Lilypond benchmark suite" to
> help objectifying such questions as you, Trevor, have started.
> In the nicest case it could be ran on different builds automatically to see
> whether there are huge changes between different releases.
>
> 2. I encounter a strange behaviour that nobody was able to explain up to
> now. Simply spoken: a lilypond foo1.ly foo2.ly foo3.ly foo4.ly is much
>>slower< than a lilypond foo1.ly && lilypond foo2.ly && lilypond foo3.ly &&
> lilypond foo4.ly. Normally I would expect the opposite. (e.g. LilyPond does
> not need to load fonts several times ...)

It sounds like we may be leaking memory somewhere again.

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