Re: Lilypond Speed

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:52:13PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote:
> Actually, I stumbled upon something very odd: though I haven't the
> exact numbers, with 2.12 my opera used to compile in ~40 minutes on
> Win32, ~25 minutes on Linux64 -- but now that I have upgraded to the
> latest git sources (that include Joe's recent work on vertical
> spacing), it takes more than... 90 minutes!!!
> (the PDF looks nicer though).

How is that odd?  More complicated algorithms take more time.  I
haven't followed the details of the spacing changes, but I'd
certainly expect them to take longer.

Cheers,
- Graham