Re: Slow compile on Windows XP - font caching problem?

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/3/10, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:

>  Under 2.11.42 the fonts are cached in C:\Documents and
>  Settings\[username]\.lilypond-fonts.cache-2.  This also
>  contains 2 small and one large (682 KB) files, but when
>  LilyPond compiles it changes just the large file - every
>  time.  This is pretty certainly where the extra time is
>  going, as the time stamp on this file updates around 45 secs
>  after starting the compile.
>
>  This may well be the same as the Vista slowness problem
>  which was also related to font caching.

Yes, I encountered the same problem on XP; it seems to re-calculate
the font cache on every compilation, and therefore takes ages to
compile anything. However, I didn't report it since I assumed I was
doing something wrong.

Cheers,
Valentin