RE: Slow compile on Windows XP - font caching problem?

[Trevor Daniels]

I've now got my new laptop up and running, so at last I can check how LilyPond 
works under Vista.  It works pretty well! :)  Release 2.11.42-1 installed 
without problems and (apart from the very first run of around 50 secs) runs a 
trivial file in around 3 secs flat, including the conversion to pdf.  So I 
don't see the slowness problem at all :) Well, it's good news for me, but not 
for diagnosing the problem others see.

Some facts that might have a bearing:

This was a clean install of Vista, not an upgrade.
This was the very first LilyPond installation on this system.
I had admin priviledges during the install, although removing them later has no 
effect on running LilyPond.
The font cache was built in [user]/.lilypond-fonts.cache-2/ and contains the 
usual three files.

BTW, the early message of mine about ice-9 not being in the load path on my XP 
system was a red herring - it was due to my path not being set correctly.

Trevor D