Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden wrote:
> Odd. There were such files (most of them empty) in various installation
> directories. I removed them all, and ran Lily in two different ways,
> there seems to be no font cache file created :-(
>
> Performance is not significantly different from what I'm used to, but
> typically, it does *not* spend 30' doing nothing before starting to parse.
>
> Isn't this odd ?

I was just wiping a Windows installation (for a computer to be sold), 
and it had a C:\Documents and settings\hanwen\.fonts.cache-1 file, which 
I got after installing and running LilyPond.

Browsing the fontconfig sources, it seems the following happens:

 - the cache file is put in the $HOME directory. If not defined 
$USERPROFILE is used on windows32.

 - if that fails, it is put the directory indicated by GetTempDir() 
windows32 API call. GetTempDir can return any directory, including 
non-existent ones (It looks at $TMP and $TEMP among others).  See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/gettemppath.asp

Can you people check what happens if you define the USERPROFILE variable?

In Cygwin, this means

  export USERPROFILE='/cygdrive/c/windows'
  lilypond  ....

this should leave a .fonts.cache-1 in your windows directory. I'm not 
sure how you set environment variables in the normal windows shell.

Jan, do you know where the USERPROFILE variable should come from?

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 Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen