[Lilypond-auto] [LilyIssues-auto] [testlilyissues:issues] #5949 Add option to use Ghostscript API instead of forking

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• summary: Use GhostScript API instead of forking --> Add option to use Ghostscript API instead of forking
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-Use GhostScript API instead of forking
+Add option to use Ghostscript API instead of forking

 This is much more efficient than the current scheme when converting
 many PostScript files, for example when building the documentation.
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 for every conversion still means a lot of overhead and a prototype
 suggested only a small gain compared to the previous solution.

+This is not the default because recent versions of Ghostscript are
+distributed under the AGPL and it's unclear what the implications of
+linking to the library is.
+
 http://codereview.appspot.com/548030043

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[issues:#5949] Add option to use Ghostscript API instead of forking

Status: Started
Created: Thu Apr 30, 2020 07:12 PM UTC by Jonas Hahnfeld
Last Updated: Sat May 02, 2020 09:45 AM UTC
Owner: Jonas Hahnfeld

Add option to use Ghostscript API instead of forking

This is much more efficient than the current scheme when converting
many PostScript files, for example when building the documentation.
For the Notation Reference, lilypond-book now takes ~2m30s instead
of 5m to compile all snippets from the notation.tely file. Other
manuals benefit less, but still the time for 'make doc' on my system
improves by one third from around 33m to 22m.

An alternative would have been to always call gsapi_init_with_args
with the same arguments used until now. This indeed works and avoids
the overhead of forking, but the instance cannot be reused. Calling
gsapi_new_instance -> gsapi_init_with_args -> gsapi_delete_instance
for every conversion still means a lot of overhead and a prototype
suggested only a small gain compared to the previous solution.

This is not the default because recent versions of Ghostscript are
distributed under the AGPL and it's unclear what the implications of
linking to the library is.

http://codereview.appspot.com/548030043

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