On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 13:29:39 +0100 Knut Petersen <knut_peter...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi everybody! > > Status of guile on OpenSuSE distributions: > ========================================== [...] > Building current lilypond master + the 15 patches from > ao2.it/tmp/lilypond-guile2/patches_2016-11-22 using guile 2 on > Tumbleweed succeeds too: [...] Thanks for the test Knut. > Tests > ===== > Compiling some of my own scores with both the guile 1 and guile > 2 versions succeeds. The pdfs are visually identical, although they > are not byte-identical. Compiling to postscript and comparing the > results shows the reason: > > knut@golem:~/Invention> diff Distler_LobeDenHerren_Schwabacher_g1.ps > Distler_LobeDenHerren_Schwabacher_g2.ps [...] > So there is no real problem, only an irrelevant difference in > precision. > I noticed that too, but I haven't got the chance to investigate. Another limitation is that lilypond (at least with guile-2) is dependent on the user locale, and requires an UTF-8 locale to work in an acceptable way. > Speed > ===== > > Compiling a moderately complex score with both versions showed > that the guile-2-version is much slower (real exec times): > > guile-2-version: 0m20,032s 0m19,186 0m19,124s > guile-1-version: 0m8,814s 0m9,023s 0m8,971s > I started to keep a TODO of what is left to make lilypond with guile-2 comparable with lilypond with guile-1.8, investigating where the slowdown is one item in the list. Thanks, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite https://ao2.it https://twitter.com/ao2it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
