Compiling a large score - real world example

[Phil Holmes]

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.

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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad

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