Re: Lilypond taking forever to typeset

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I wonder if fc-cache became more "nosy", trying to extract more data
> from fonts than it did in the past or if it's just my perception (or
> perhaps my computer became slower :).

Probably the former.  Perhaps it helps if you try the latest
fontconfig release, 2.12.0 – I think I saw something about speed
improvements...

> - it really should print the warning before starting font database
> generation (I was sure that my lilypond was broken and deleted it
> earlier)

Yes, this should be done.

> - it could potentially only trigger font database generation when at
> least one font change is requested

Hmm.  Does lilypond really recreates the whole database instead of
doing an incremental update?  I don't think so.  At least I don't
experience such a behaviour on my GNU/Linux box.


    Werner