Yes, I just put skipTypesetting at the end of whichever lines are necessary and then comment/uncomment them as needed. Very fast.
I should say, in response to Graham's comment, that I have noticed this behavior on the stable version -- the only one I've used for some time now. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Urs Liska <lilyp...@ursliska.de> wrote: > And of course you make heavy use of \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##t ? > So you don't have to wait so often ... > > Best > Urs > > Am 15.07.2010 21:04, schrieb Neil Thornock: >> >> Not that this is very *helpful* but when I've had this situation, I >> process the first half of the score separate from the second half, >> adjusting page numbers if needed. I had to do this with my orchestra >> piece -- it ended up saving an hour of processing time! >> >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Graham Percival >> <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: >> >>> >>> There are some attempts to optimize the speed; one simple patch >>> reduces the time required by something like 40%. But you should >>> expect such problems from an unstable development version. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> - Graham >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 06:22:56PM +0800, 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> I finally finish my concert overture, which has just 250 measures, >>>> 34 >>>> pages. The compiling is a nightmare! When I used normal way, the >>>> computer >>>> turned into a circumstance like it was about to crash. Then I used >>>> Process >>>> Tamer, a small util program to reduce source wasting. At first, it's >>>> ok to >>>> do anything while compiling, but after 5 minutes, the computer again >>>> became very slow. Then I went away to listen to The Firebird. After >>>> its 45 >>>> minutes' music, Lilypond was still compiling. I checked the task >>>> manager, >>>> and found it first used around 120M of RAM, but then continuous >>>> ascend to >>>> over 520M, and then fall to 330M, and up to 472... After another >>>> about 50 >>>> minutes, The score was at last ready. The whole process took about >>>> 110 >>>> minutes!!! I'd like to know why Lilypond should use such a large >>>> memory, >>>> since cpu is not taken too much (but instead, "system idle >>>> process.exe" >>>> took very large percent (up to 94%) of cpu). I think I must buy a >>>> Win7 >>>> machine with 4 core cpu and 8gb RAM, otherwise I can't write a piece >>>> like >>>> The Firebird, which will burn my current machine into dust :-) >>>> Regards >>>> Haipeng >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> A:uIeOuOD--oIIo/O *Aa.NOEIa:O>>NuC,?'ouA:Ei 1/4thAd--L-? >>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> lilypond-user mailing list >>>> lilypond-user@gnu.org >>>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> lilypond-user mailing list >>> lilypond-user@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- Neil Thornock, D.M. The recent BYU Symphony Orchestra performance of Plutoids: http://neilthornock.net/mp3s/plutoids.mp3 Assistant Professor of Music Composition/Theory Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user