Re: lilypond speed

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Tarenskeen" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user mailinglist" <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:42 AM
Subject: lilypond speed


> Some day soon my still reliable but not very fast 10 year old laptop will 
> have to be replaced by a more modern machine.
>
> Will Lilypond benifit much if my next computer will have one of those 
> modern multi-core processors like the Intel i3/5/7 ?
>
> I'm just curious.
>
> --
>
> Martin

If you're using Windows, you definitely won't see an improvement with a 
multi-core machine.  LilyPond is single-threaded, and so can only use a 
single core at a given time.  It may be that your new machine will have more 
memory, and this is definitely beneficial for large scores, where Lily can 
take a lot of memory.  Whether the processor will be faster depends solely 
on the processing power of _one_ of the cores of your new CPU versus the 
power of your old one.


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Phil Holmes