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Re: Speed tips, again, for extremely large scores?
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Martin Tarenskeen |
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Re: Speed tips, again, for extremely large scores? |
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Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:34:42 +0100 (CET) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Michael Kappler wrote:
I'm also still very interested if there are possibilities to increase
LilyPond performance further.
My machine is very slow, though and I cannot speak for many people when
raising performance issues.
Would it be an idea to create a "Lilypond Benchmark" webpage, small,
interesting, and useless ;-) This webpage would show a list with the following
info:
1. Hardware / Processor type
2. Platform / OS
3. Lilypond version 4. The benchmark result: I suggest to give te time needed
to "make" the (at least in this mailinglist) already famous "Reubke Psalm 94"
score.
The website should have a simple interface where Lilypond users can enter their
results and show a list sorted by results. On linux it is easy to measure the
time using the "time" command.
Would be interesting to see results with relatively old computers as well as
the newest i7 speeddevils ...
Lilypond does benifit a lot from this fast new processor technology. Speed is
not Lilypond's strongest point. Other, less powerful but still quite good,
text-to-musicscore commandline programs like mup (shareware), abcm2ps, and pmw
are MUCH faster. Even on my ancient Atari computer running at 32 MHz, I could
run these programs with reasonable speed. But there are several other reasons
why I prefer and use mostly Lilypond now.
If one day computers will be too fast to give reliable results, we can always
change the benchmark test by repeating the same test 10 or 100 times :-)
There have been some individual postings on this subject, but a small dedicated
website would be nice. An extra page on the normal Lilypond homepage maybe ?
I'm not a very capable webpage designer. Any volunteers ?
--
Martin
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