Re: problems with long files

[Joe Neeman]

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 20:01, Arvid Grøtting wrote:
> Joe Neeman <joeneeman <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > I recently discovered that the new page-breaking algorithm is slow when
> > there are many small scores.
>
> FWIW, lilypond finished processing this score in 26m37.359s on a (fairly
> new) laptop I use, using version 2.11.23 on Linux (64-bit Ubuntu 7.04). 

With my working copy of lilypond (on a 1.6 GHz Opteron), I have this down to 
3m22.321s. That's still about 3 times slower than 2.8 but it's progress. 
FWIW, I don't think 2.10 (and above) will ever be as fast as 2.8 when there 
are many scores -- the newer versions do a lot more work in the page-breaking 
stage and there is a limit to how much it can be optimised.

>
> The "convert to PDF" step failed, however.
I can't reproduce this (although I'm running git head instead of 2.11.13).

Joe