On 09/12, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > Why lilypond on windows is VERY slow?! It takes almost 30 seconds to
> > complete
> >something that compiles in less than a second on Fedora Core 4... I'm
> >shocked.
> >For some reasons I can't use Fedora at home and it's very annoying to wait
> >so
> >much for a little correction :( I thought lilypond is slow by design, but
> >when I installed FC4 at work and decided to try unix version I was truly
> >shocked...
> >The difference between windows and unix computer's hardware does exist,
> >but certainly
> >it's not an order of 100 times........
> Are you using Cygwin?
Well, I have it both ways. It's slow if I use cygwin, it's slow
if I run it from cmd.exe prompt or drag a .ly file on its icon.
> Do you have many fonts?
Nope. Only standard fonts that come with WinXP pro.
> The difference in speed between the mingw and FC binaries should be neglible.
How to find this bottleneck?
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Roman V. Isaev http://www.soprano-recorder.ru Moscow, Russia
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