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

[Trevor Daniels]

Yes, definitely a regression.  I've gone back to using
2.11.34 which does not suffer this bug, as most of my
documentation work is fiddling with tiny snippets, and a 1
minute delay every time I make a change makes it impossible
to work.

Trevor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 11 March 2008 10:29
> To: Valentin Villenave
> Cc: address@hidden; Bug-Lilypond
> Subject: Re: Slow compile on Windows XP - font
> caching problem?
>
>
>
>
> Valentin Villenave wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> If this problem has appeared also on XP, then
> it's a regression bug.
>
>    /Mats
>