On 17 November 2016 at 13:24, Vaughan McAlley <vaug...@mcalley.net.au> wrote: > Greetings, > > My 2008 iMac is reaching the end of its useful life, and I would like to > replace it with some kind of desktop computer that runs Debian. Given that a > significant proportion of my time on this new computer will be compiling > Lilypond files, I was wondering which specs I should be prioritizing. > > 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. > > Cheers, > Vaughan >
Thanks everyone for all the benchmarking. It looks like I’ll get a huge improvement whatever I do. I’m thinking of getting a refurbished computer with decent single-thread performance: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html Getting a fairly cheap older computer would only sacrifice about 20% of performance (in the 1900 range on this chart). With the extra money I could soup it up with an SSD and a modern graphics card. There was some funny stuff happening with convert-ly and footnotes. I’ll see if I can do a small example. I have no idea what the warning: cannot find property type-check for `extra-X-extent' (backend-type?). perhaps a typing error? warning: skipping assignment …warning is about. I’ll see if it happens with the original 2.16 files. And don’t worry, I rarely compile the whole lot. In this file I can comment the \include lines to work on one movement at a time. I’m not that much of a glutton for punishment! Cheers, Vaughan _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
