I'm a first-time LilyPond user. I just downloaded version 2.11.63 for Vista
and noticed the same behavior described in the following defect, which was
fixed in 2.11.43:
545 Defect Verified Medium v.villenaveLilyPond is excessively slow on
Windows Vista Performance fixed_2_11_43
Carl Sorensen byu.edu> writes:
> Have you checked that it's slow the _second_ time you run a file? It will
be
> slow the first time it runs because it needs to build a font cache, but
> successive times should not be slow.
>
> Please let us know if it stays slow.
Slow every time.
Mats Bengtsson ee.kth.se> writes:
>
> Could any of you Vista users, try to run LilyPond from the command line
> with the --verbose flag, to see what step of the compilation process
> takes most time?
>
"Building font database" is the time-consuming part.
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