Re: Cairo plans

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Montag, dem 30.08.2021 um 18:47 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development
> <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Giving timing for a single HTML file is a bit dubious because it
> > requires processing all .tely files for cross-references. For the
> > influence of Cairo, you really want to compare the time it takes to
> > run lilypond-book to get a single .texi file. However, I'd like to
> > remark that generating zillions of tiny snippets is not really the
> > kind of things users tend to do...
> 
> It's likely the workload for Wikimedia (though likely not via PDF) where
> performance is pretty relevant.

Maybe, but (please correct me if I'm wrong) Wikimedia is not compiling
zillions of small scores via a single process as the doc build is doing
for the NR. And once you start a new process for every snippet and need
to wait 0.6 seconds for LilyPond to boot up, the speed advantage of
Cairo compared to the existing backends becomes negligible, I suppose.

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