Re: Windows speed improvements - update

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> However, there's one more thing to consider here, particularly with
> the recent experiences wrt .ly compilation failures, is if there's a
> significant difference between binary releases and custom builds. From
> the above only 2.19.20 is self-compiled. But a self-compiled modified
> 2.19.16 also takes only 12 sec. As do modified builds of 2.17.3 and
> 2.19.6! Unfortunately my binary release of 2.18.2 is broken ATM.
>
> So according to my (limited) tests it seems that LilyPond itself isn't
> really speeding up. What *is* reducing compilation time seems to be
> related to the binary releases only.
> Whatever that means ...

We had rather significant updates to the crosscompiling GCC setup in GUB
necessitated by my move of the smob infrastructure from macros to C++
templates.  Could well be that the newer GCC does make a difference
here.

-- 
David Kastrup