Re: lilypond speed - ridiculously slow on windows xp

[Sven Axelsson]

On 21/11/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, I can't find  anything called font.cache-1 or even font.cache*
anywhere on my computer. Perhaps this file is not created on Windows
anymore? Lilypond has been slow since 2.7.12 I think. I may try
installing an older version and see if the speed comes back.

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Sven Axelsson