Re: Installing URW++ fonts, issue 4998: why not add wget lines to lilydev-setup.sh?

[Thomas Morley]

2017-10-10 22:53 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Knut Petersen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Am 10.10.2017 um 20:56 schrieb Thomas Morley:
>>> Also, it's the question which guile-version we should aim at.
>>> Antonio's patches are made for guile-2.0, but guile-2.2 is far more
>>> promising, imho.
>>
>> About a year ago guile 2.0 was terribly slow. Is there any progress?
>
> Respective to 2.0, yes.  But it's still decidedly awful compared to 1.8
> as used in LilyPond.
>
> --
> David Kastrup

2.2 is faster than 2.0 but still much slower than 1.8.
This may improve, if we manage to get reasonable use of .go-files.

In my experience 2.2 eats far less memory even compared to 1.8.

Cheers,
  Harm