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. -- David Kastrup