Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:42:46 +0100, address@hidden said:
>
> > Is it globally slow, or is there a specific part which is recognizably
> > responsible for the poor performance ? (Generating
> > PS/PS2PDF/generating MIDI/parsing/analysis...)
> >
> > D.
>
>
> I don't believe it's the compiling that is slow; it seems to take 30-50
> seconds just to START compiling after I invoke lilypond (whether through
> double-click, click-and-drag, command line, etc.) Once it starts it
> produces all the files quickly. I know this because I double-click
> lilypond and nothing happens - then 30 seconds later a command window
> pops up and starts working away. I have duplicated this behavior on
> several other installs of Windows XP SP2 at my school with Lilypond
> 2.6.x and 2.7.x.

I believe that this is related to a FontConfig problem. You can verify 
this, by running the console version from cmd.exe and invoking it as

  lilypond --verbose bla.ly

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