Re: Issue 1211 in lilypond: [PATCH]Optimizations for pure-height approximations. (issue1817045)

[Neil Puttock]

On 20 November 2010 00:22, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:

> That *is* the "big picture".  If the "time" field is fixed, and
> the "time+cells" are documented, and if the bug squad followed the
> printed checklist in the CG, then we would never need Nick to go
> through and do benchmarks manually.  In fact, if the first two
> items were done and we followed all the proposals for
> patch-handling that I'll be proposing in GOP, then we would never
> have an unexpected drop in performance in git.

I've just looked at the "time" field issue, and it seems to me it's
deliberately disabled.  The timing info is switched on via the
`dump-cpu-profile' option, which says it's system dependent: it likely
produces misleading results.

Cheers,
Neil