Re: Speed tips, again, for extremely large scores?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> 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.
You can find some examples of such benchmarking in the mailing list 
archives. Don't forget that RAM size is a major factor when it comes to 
processing time.

  /Mats