Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

[Hajo Dezelski]

No, I switched from Finale (7 Years) to Lilypond, but I use Lilypond "only" to write the score to have a basis  to work with the music. 

And here is a problem : I can only export to midi not xml . So I export it to Finale (Human Playback from Robert Piéchaud) or Harmony Assistant (via Midi) and produce a decent playback using mostly Garritan samples. When it sounds good I export it back to a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) mostly using Samplitude to have an audible nice piece of music by tweaking the tracks a little more. And that was (is) the main reason why I switched after long years of Linux (Suse) back to XP. But this old XP Laptop is most of the time not online. Mails etc. will be done on a Mac or a Linuxmachine ;-)

Hajo

2008/11/12 Tim Reeves <address@hidden>

I also run Win Xp SP2 on my laptop (work provided) which is where I usually run Lilypond (typical .ly file compile times are about 5+/-2 seconds from my memory), but I have a Vista machine (newer, wife uses mainly) and an older machine running Ubuntu for now at home. I want to get her used to the idea of Linux and make the switch the next time Vista crashes hard ;-)

Thanks for the information.

Did you mean you switched from Lilypond back to some proprietary music software and that forced you to use Windows instead of Linux? I don't know what DAW is.


Tim Reeves

"Hajo Dezelski" <address@hidden>

11/12/2008 12:43 PM

To	"Tim Reeves" <address@hidden>
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Subject	Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

It was Ubuntu 8.10 but XP SP2 and I took the time measure from Lilypond. Of course I ran the tests several times. On XP I only ran the necessary processes and the compile times were stable. Ubuntu was right out of the box and compile times differed. I switched back to XP for it was easier for me to use other musical software (DAW)

Hajo

2008/11/12 Tim Reeves <address@hidden>

"Hajo Dezelski" <address@hidden> wrote:

Thinkpad x61s    New    Ubuntu (Linux)    Dual 1,6 GHz    2 GB        4-5 s
Thinkpad x61s    New    XP             Dual 1,6 GHz    2 GB        2 s


Only one data point but interesting: Faster on WinXP than on Ubuntu.
Was it the latest of each? i.e. Ubuntu 8.10 and XP SP3?



Tim Reeves



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