Re: Does lilypond takes advantage of multi-cores on windows?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Anthony <address@hidden> wrote:

>> No, lilypond will only use one core.  That said, you would be able
>> to compile multiple scores at once.
>
>> -djob-count=[number of cores]
>>
>> Regards,
>> Neil
>
> I don't think that job count changes things when you process a single
> input file though.  If you specify multiple input files to process
> then lilypond will fork off into different jobs to get the work done.

this option is mainly for lilypond-book use: it halves the time to
build the lilypond documentation on my dual core notebook.

To use,

$ cat local.make

CPU_COUNT=2

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