Re: LilyPond can't engrave 16 pages of music

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Sa., 22. Dez. 2018 um 12:10 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>>
>> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Am Sa., 22. Dez. 2018 um 02:46 Uhr schrieb Ben <address@hidden>:
>> >> Did you experience the same wait times?
>> >
>> > It lasted ~40minutes (I didn't observed the time exactly)
>> >
>> > I think:
>> > most of the time is spend in calculating spacing/line-/page-breaks.
>>
>> Recently Werner committed a few fixes of typos with possibly ugly
>> consequences in the area of page breaking, so it might be worthwhile
>> crosschecking with current master.
>
> I've redone testings with the OP's original code, i.e.
>
>     {
>       \time 4/4
>       \repeat unfold 1000 { c4 d e f } % TEN PAGES of music
>       \repeat unfold 1000 { f1 } % + SIX MORE PAGES of music
>       \repeat unfold 1000 { c4 d e f } % BUT WHEN ADDING MORE PAGES, fail NOW
>     }
>
> Using 2.19.82 (from the installer) and 2.21.0 out of 915799cad7
> musicexp.py: Use python 2.4 syntax.
>
> Always restarting the computer after each test.
>
> For 2.19.82 it's finished after 28m4,740s
> For 2.21.0 after 24m50,214s
>
> Memory-usage seems to be similar.
> I didn't oberve a difference in the final pdfs

Well, good to know anyway.

-- 
David Kastrup