Re: Windows speed improvements - update

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Windows speed improvements - update


> Phil Holmes <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I've just started working again on some mensural music with associated
> > modern transcription.  The ancient score is about 8 pages long.  With
> > 2.18.2 one of the pieces takes 97 seconds to compile.  With 2.19.19 it
> > takes 37 seconds.
> >
> > Fantastic!
>
> A bit too fantastic.  It would be interesting what change was the major
> contributor here.
>
> If it's Windows-specific only, it's probably related to font access.
>
> --
> David Kastrup


I'm presuming it's the updates to pango:

https://github.com/gperciva/gub/commit/4c1a0b79a4ba00e3f49add10f6df82249733498d

--
Phil Holmes