On Saturday 05 May 2007 02:57, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I recently discovered that the new page-breaking algorithm is slow when > > there are many small scores. As a workaround, put > > \paper { > > #(define page-breaking optimal-page-breaks) > > } > > at the top of the file. > > I've recently faced the case where the page breaker (or so it seems) > actually does not finish its job. That was with a ~100-score book, on a > machine with 3Gbytes of RAM, with LilyPond 2.11.23. After the last > "Preprocessing graphical objects...", the lilypond process uses ~1Gbyte > of memory, then slowly increases up to using all the memory available, > wthout finishing.
Is this the old page breaker (optimal-page-breaks) or the new one (ly:optimal-breaking)? There will be some dramatic speed increases in the new breaker in 2.11.24. _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond