Re: overall performance

[Graham Percival]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Graham Percival escreveu:
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > > I've just pushed a change which enables (commented out) skylines for
> > > separation items. Could you have another look at skyline performance?
> > > I'm seeing a signifcant performance impact on enabling it.
> > Would it be desirable to have
> > \fastProcessing
> > \qualityProcessing
> > macros?
>
> No, this is as stupid as the 'windows video acceleration' settings:
> most users won't know they're there,

Well, that's what the documentation is for.

> and if they know, it's not clear what the settings do.

That's what ly/property-init.ly is for.


We occasionally get people (even me!) sending "bug" reports about
\override Score.PaperColumn #'keep-inside-line = ##t

You said that it added 5% or 10% to the processing time, so it wasn't 
worth having it on by default.  That's fine; I'm not criticizing that 
decision.  But what if somebody _is_ willing to spend that extra 
processing time to get great-looking music?  Currently they need to comb 
through the manual (and program reference, because I haven't documented 
every case because I don't know them all!) to find all such options.

At the very least we should have a doc page with the "higher quality 
output commands that are turned off by default" \override commands.  Why 
not also make a
\qualifyProcessing

macro that sets it up for them as well?

Cheers,
- Graham