Re: problems with long files

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Joe Neeman <address@hidden> writes:

> On Saturday 05 May 2007 02:57, Nicolas Sceaux wrote:
>> I've recently faced the case where the page breaker (or so it seems)
>> actually does not finish its job. That was with a ~100-score book, on a
>> machine with 3Gbytes of RAM, with LilyPond 2.11.23. After the last
>> "Preprocessing graphical objects...", the lilypond process uses ~1Gbyte
>> of memory, then slowly increases up to using all the memory available,
>> wthout finishing.
>
> Is this the old page breaker (optimal-page-breaks) or the new one 
> (ly:optimal-breaking)? There will be some dramatic speed increases in the new 
> breaker in 2.11.24.

With the new one, ly:optimal-breaking. I'm looking forward testing
2.11.24.

nicolas