Re: slowdown in 2.5.15?

[David Bobroff]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 13:04 -0600, Stan Sanderson wrote:
> Mac OS 10.3.8, Lilypond 2.5.15 (thanks to Matthias Neracher)
> 
> I have noticed a dramatic increase in the time to process a lilypond 
> file compared to 2.5.13. A piano piece of 193 measures takes just short 
> of 9 minutes to process (lilypond blitz.ly) on a 1 GHz G4 iMac with no 
> other apps running.
> 
> This is between 4-7 times slower than 2.5.13 and 2.4.14, running on the 
> same machine.
> 
> It appears to hang at "calculating line breaks" but eventually begins 
> to slowly show the numbers.
> 
> Stan

I think I've noticed something similar.  I thought it was hanging during
compilation.  It was during font tracing, I think.  I did notice some
slow down in processing *.ly files, too.

-David

v2.5.15 on FC3