Re: Compiling a large score - real world example

[Phil Holmes]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote in message news:...
> I mentioned a while ago that I'd been working on a complete score for "The
> Mikado".  I've now completed it, bar the overture.  At a global staff size
> of 16 point, it comes to 143 pages.  I compiled it on an XP Pro virtual
> machine running on my Vista Home-64 system - partly so that nothing else
> impinged on the compile, and partly so I could use the Performance monitor
> to check memory usage - this doesn't work on my Vista installation.  The 
> VM
> had 2 Gigs of memory.
>
> It took almost exactly 1500 seconds to compile on 2.13.35.  Peak virtual
> memory was 1.3 Gigs.  It's not a single \new Score, but one per song in 
> the
> show - 24 in total.  However, just to make breaking calcs slightly more
> difficult, each song runs on from the previous - no pagebreaks.
>
> The graph below shows how memory was allocated by LP.
>
> --
> Phil Holmes
> Bug Squad

I've just repeated this with 13.51.  It's *much* faster - 790 seconds 
compared with the 1500 above.  Congratulations, Joe(?).  It also used a 
little more memory - see the attached graph that compares memory allocation.

--
Phil Holmes
Bug Squad

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