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

[John Mandereau]

On 2008/10/03 18:42 -0700, sdfgsdhdshd wrote:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys-5 wrote:
> > One tricky aspect is that the GUILE evaluator is fundamentally broken:
> > it rewrites Scheme expressions for memoization in thread-unsafe ways
> > all over the place.
> > 
> > For Lily itself, I think it will also be very tricky: evaluating grob
> > properties through callbacks is assumes that there is only one
> > evaluation going on at the same time.
> > 
> 
> You mean there must be only one .ly file on the command-line?

No, we were talking about the possibility of parallelizing code to take
advantage of multi-core CPUs to process _one_ file at the same time, but
you can of course take advantage of a multicore CPU if you process
several ly files at the same time with

lilypond -djob-count=NUMBER LY_FILES

--
John