Jonas Hahnfeld <hah...@hahnjo.de> writes: > Am Montag, dem 30.08.2021 um 18:47 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development >> <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> writes: >> >> > Giving timing for a single HTML file is a bit dubious because it >> > requires processing all .tely files for cross-references. For the >> > influence of Cairo, you really want to compare the time it takes to >> > run lilypond-book to get a single .texi file. However, I'd like to >> > remark that generating zillions of tiny snippets is not really the >> > kind of things users tend to do... >> >> It's likely the workload for Wikimedia (though likely not via PDF) where >> performance is pretty relevant. > > Maybe, but (please correct me if I'm wrong) Wikimedia is not compiling > zillions of small scores via a single process as the doc build is doing > for the NR. And once you start a new process for every snippet and need > to wait 0.6 seconds for LilyPond to boot up, the speed advantage of > Cairo compared to the existing backends becomes negligible, I suppose.
I'd imagine that starting up GhostScript with font loading and stuff for every image or not would still make a difference. -- David Kastrup
