Re: Do we really offer the future?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:47:02PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> >> Why would you want to check each bar twice?
> > These bar checks are mostly for humans to ease reading of the code,
> > not for machine interpreting.
> 
> Does it double the time required?
> And if so, what total amount of processing time is actually added
> (say, per 100 bar checks)?
[...]

As far as I understand (I could be wrong), the amount of time it takes
to do a bar check is by far outweighed by the more complex tasks that
Lilypond does -- layout, collision avoidance, line-breaking,
page-breaking, etc.. So much so it probably only adds up to roundoff
error in the total computing time.


T

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