Re: Long compilation times

[M Watts]

Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
> I've noticed scores compile much quicker on much lower specced machines, 

Indeed so, my 32 bit 1.6Ghz with 512 meg ram takes 4 minutes 39 seconds 
-- no swapsies either.

>time lilypond score.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.12.1
Processing `score.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music... [8][16][24][32][40][48][56][64][72][80][88]
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 or 2 pages...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `score.ps'...
Converting to `./score.pdf'...
272.39user 2.29system 4:39.83elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 
0maxresident)k
8072inputs+1072outputs (32major+32982minor)pagefaults 0swaps

> so I'm suspecting
> something peculiar to my installation, but I don't know where to look.
>   

Me neither :\  I used 2.12.1, but that wouldn't make much (or any) 
difference.