Re: Windows performance

2015-04-19 Thread Keith OHara
Trevor Daniels t.daniels at treda.co.uk writes: Martin Tarenskeen wrote Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:29 PM Just a wild guess: did anyone on Windows try the same speed comparison using the --ps option instead of pdf output? Just done that. The conversion from ps to pdf takes only a

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:43 PM From: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:28 PM Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:00 PM The performance of LilyPond 2.19.18 on Windows is _much_ better than previous versions. Some examples:

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-18 Thread Keith OHara
Trevor Daniels t.daniels at treda.co.uk writes: Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:00 PM The performance of LilyPond 2.19.18 on Windows is _much_ better than previous versions. Some examples: A 26 page multi-score piece I've been working on: 2.19.16: 114s to compile

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-18 Thread Jay Anderson
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com wrote: Hi Trevor, On Apr 18, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: But wouldn't this show a speed-up on systems other than Windows? There are similar speed-ups on macs (see earlier in this thread).

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-18 Thread Paul Morris
Hi Trevor, On Apr 18, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: But wouldn't this show a speed-up on systems other than Windows? There are similar speed-ups on macs (see earlier in this thread). I don’t think we’ve had anyone corroborate the results on GNU/Linux yet.

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-18 Thread Keith OHara
Keith OHara k-ohara5a5a at oco.net writes: Trevor Daniels t.daniels at treda.co.uk writes: Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:00 PM The performance of LilyPond 2.19.18 on Windows is _much_ better than previous versions. Some examples: On Linux, I see no measurable

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-18 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015, Paul Morris wrote: Hi Trevor, On Apr 18, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: But wouldn't this show a speed-up on systems other than Windows? There are similar speed-ups on macs (see earlier in this thread). I don’t think we’ve

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-18 Thread Urs Liska
Am 18.04.2015 um 19:11 schrieb Jay Anderson: On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com wrote: Hi Trevor, On Apr 18, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: But wouldn't this show a speed-up on systems other than Windows? There are similar

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-18 Thread Trevor Daniels
Martin Tarenskeen wrote Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:29 PM On Sat, 18 Apr 2015, Paul Morris wrote: On Apr 18, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk wrote: But wouldn't this show a speed-up on systems other than Windows? There are similar speed-ups on macs (see

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-17 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:43 PM From: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:28 PM Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:00 PM The performance of LilyPond 2.19.18 on Windows is _much_ better than previous versions. Some examples:

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-17 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Phil, The point I am making is that you need to reboot the machine between version runs, to equalize matters such as disk block caching. If you run 2.19.16 and then 2.19.18 the latter may be using cached data from the former, such as shared DLL’s already loaded and so on. Now that you have

Windows performance

2015-04-16 Thread Phil Holmes
The performance of LilyPond 2.19.18 on Windows is _much_ better than previous versions. Some examples: A 26 page multi-score piece I've been working on: 2.19.16: 114s to compile 2.19.18: 52s A 500 bar piece of old music I was working on: 2.19.18: 61.6s 2.19.16: 124.6s 2.19.6: 150.9s 2.18.2:

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-16 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:00 PM The performance of LilyPond 2.19.18 on Windows is _much_ better than previous versions. Some examples: A 26 page multi-score piece I've been working on: 2.19.16: 114s to compile 2.19.18: 52s ... [etc] That's remarkable. I can see no

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-16 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk To: Phil Holmes philehol...@googlemail.com; LilyPond User Group lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Windows performance Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:00 PM

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-16 Thread Paul Morris
On Apr 16, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Phil Holmes philehol...@googlemail.com wrote: A simple stress test: \repeat unfold 900 { c''4 c' c c, } I tried this simple test on my mac and got similar results! (Three runs for each version.) 2.18.2:41.1 40.2 41.5 2.19.16: 38.9 38.1 38.6

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-16 Thread Urs Liska
: - Original Message - From: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk To: Phil Holmes philehol...@googlemail.com; LilyPond User Group lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Windows performance Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:00 PM

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-16 Thread tisimst
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Re: Windows performance

2015-04-16 Thread Phil Holmes
...@philholmes.net: - Original Message - From: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.ukTo: Phil Holmes philehol...@googlemail.com; LilyPond User Group lilypond-user@gnu.orgSent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:28 PMSubject: Re: Windows performance Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:00 PM

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-16 Thread Cynthia Karl
Message: 4 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:28:35 +0100 From: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk To: Phil Holmes philehol...@googlemail.com, LilyPond User Group lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Windows performance Message-ID: assp.154812a152.24D5F6F494F544389C536A4DA2947FBB

Re: Windows performance

2015-04-16 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hello Phil, As an IT specialist who used to do large scale performance tuning of big UNIX systems, let me add two A$ cents worth. Modern operating systems cache a lot of objects in memory. When a program is first run it can take much longer than the next time since disk blocks have to be loaded