Re: Lilypond performance

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:26:15AM -0700, ornello wrote:
>> In my installation, Lilypond runtime seems to increase exponentially (at
>> least not linearly) with the number of pages to engrave. Is there any option
>> to speed up Lilypond, e.g. by removing time-consuming engravers, such that
>> the performance only increases (almost) linearly with the number of pages?
>  
> There's a section in the Learning manual called "speeding up
> lilypond", or something like that.  This sounds like a good place
> to look.

Essentially exponential behavior can't really be cured with anything
except fixing the algorithm.

-- 
David Kastrup