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Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp


From: Han-Wen Nienhuys
Subject: Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:01:07 +0100
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Sven Axelsson wrote:
On 21/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:

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


Yes indeed. Lilypond sits at Initializing FontConfig... for at least
30 seconds on each run. In my case it may be because I fiddled with
the system fonts a while ago, trying out (and uninstalling) Suitcase -
a font handling program. So, how do we get the font information back
in synch?


It's understandable that reading things takes time. The strange thing is that this should all be cached, so second runs are much quicker. Can you check whether the font directory are changed (files (dis)appearing, timestamps that change?) regularly?

Also, there should be a font.cache-1 file, which caches the results. I'm not sure where it is put on Windows, though.


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 Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen




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