Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

[Tim Slattery]

Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:

>> 
>> 545 Defect Verified Medium ---- v.villenave    LilyPond is excessively slow 
>> on 
>> Windows Vista   Performance fixed_2_11_43  
>> 
>
>Rob,
>
>Have you checked that it's slow the _second_ time you run a file?  It will be 
>slow the first time it runs because it needs to build a font cache, but 
>successive times should not be slow.

On my Vista system, when I invoke Lilypond I get the GNU version
notice, and then.....

it sits for almost 50 seconds, apparently doing NOTHING. Then it wakes
up and processes the file. It's still usable, but it sure slows things
down.

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