Re: Piping contents of SVG directly to stdout

[Andrew Bernard]

File IO _expensive_ in 2022? What do you mean exactly? What sort of 
computer and disks are you referring to? Surely lilypond processing 
completely dominates any IO it does?

Andrew


On 16/07/2022 5:15 am, DoubleFelix wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using lilypond to programmatically generate sheet music. I already 
> have a system in place to crop the SVGs, but now I need to load them 
> in my software. I could use the default behavior of letting lilypond 
> write to some file, and then reading it, but file I/O tends to be 
> pretty expensive, especially when you're doing it in bulk like I am, 
> so I'd like to avoid that.