Re: lilypond stalls on windows every time

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> However, when I run LilyPond --verbose ... , it still spends quite some 
> time
> at
> ..
> Initializing FontConfig...
> Rebuilding FontConfig cache C:\Documents and 
> Settings\mats/.fonts.cache-1. this
> may take a while...
> adding font directory: C:/Program 
> Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond//current/fonts/otf/
> adding font directory: C:/Program 
> Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond//current/fonts/type1/Building font 
> database.
> ..
>
> and the file C:\Documents and Settings\mats/.fonts.cache-1
> is still empty, but that's maybe normal? It seems that the time spent
> on producing the cache file in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ was negligible,
> I cannot notice any difference in the time it takes to run LilyPond.

I've also added cache files for the lilypond fonts. I don't see any 
difference, but Dave might want to try 2.8.0-3.

Note that nobody ever claimed that LilyPond was fast.

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