On 11/16/2016 8:24 PM, Vaughan McAlley wrote: > I’ve included a large project if anyone with a newish computer would > like to test their compilation time. The main file is MDSM.ly. It > takes my computer between 4 and 5 minutes to compile.
Thanks for sending that project! I find it very instructive to review completed work by experienced users. My computer here is one I built in July 2012 or so. I guess it's not exactly newish anymore, was nothing extra high-end to begin with, and currently it should have a reformat and re-install. Intel DZ77SL-50K mainboard Intel Core i5-3450 "Ivy Bridge" 3.10 GHz CPU 24 GB RAM Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-bit LilyPond 2.19.46, Frescobaldi 2.17.2. MSDM.ly and its entourage compiled in 1 min 4 secs. As others noted, a program like LilyPond only uses 1 CPU core. So fewer, faster cores could quite possibly outperform a higher-end processor with more, slower cores. In my case, with this project LilyPond promptly sends CPU usage to 25% and stays there until finished - it's maxing out 1 of the i5's 4 cores. So have 6 or 8 or however-many more cores would probably not help here. -- Karlin High Missouri, USA _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
