Re: 2.19.47 long compile times

[Trevor Bača]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:40 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Trevor Bača <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The new 2.19.47 is taking about 40 seconds to compile a one-note test
> file.
> > (MacOS X x86.)
> >
> > In my past experience, new LilyPond builds sometimes take 30 or 40
> seconds
> > to compile *on the very first run after install* (presumably to update
> the
> > font cache, or something similar). But 2.19.47 is taking 40 seconds *on
> > every run*.
>
> Run it under strace or whatever MacOSX has available in order to find
> out where the time is going?  I suspect it fails creating a font cache
> and builds it on every run.


Would be happy to, but I've never run strace or equivalent on the Mac. If
anyone else can do it, that would be helpful.

Just from having watched these things for a while, my guess would be the
same as yours: that the font cache is rebuilt on every run (rather than on
just the first run).

Trevor.

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