On Thursday 03 May 2007 00:53, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > 2007/5/2, Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Well, I have seen that the Lilypond version 2.8.8 can easily be > > > installed in the local directory, and with that, everything compiles in > > > a couple of seconds with no fuss. > > > > Yes, I can confirm that 2.10 (and 2.11) seem to use a significant amount > > more memory than 2.8. > > AFAICR, 2.8 predates your changes to the pagebreaker; we keep all of > the scores in memory now, which will signficantly increase memory use. > However, it would be nice to know some more useful facts about the > memory use. > > Here are some tips: > > - -ddebug-gc will print statistics of live objects in a file. Look at > this to see what type of objects are using most memory > > - -dtrace-memory-frequency will sample memory use over time. Look at > this to see which stages of the program use a lot of memory > > Another useful metric is to know when (which version, or better yet: > which commit) introduced increased memory use. > > Unfortunately, I lack the time to investigate this deeply now, and I > would be grateful if someone did a bit of legwork for me.
Thanks for the tips, I'll look at this after I finish with the page breaker. _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
