Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

[David Kastrup]

"address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 5 août 2012, at 12:37, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 02/08/12 17:51, Graham Percival wrote:
>>> In short: if there is a concerted effort to create a "quick
>>> render" output, I would be absolutely shocked if it wasn't at
>>> least 10 times faster than the current output.
>> 
>> (1) How paralellized is the current code -- and if not much or at
>> all, what do you think the scope is for doing so?  E.g. once basic
>> pagination is in place, could all other elements be engraved in
>> separate per-page threads?  Likewise, any parts of a score separated
>> by an explicit page break could be engraved by separate threads.
>> 
>
> LilyPond currently only works on a single thread and the code base is
> definitely not optimized for parallel processing.

What's up with

lilypond -djob-count=4 ...

?

-- 
David Kastrup