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Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Aug 2012 02:17:40 -0300 |
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:50 AM, George_ <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm trying to explain that the constant factor (namely 8-fold) comes
>> at a tremendous cost. Writing multithreaded code without getting stuck
>> in race-conditions and deadlocks is extremely difficult and time
>> consuming, and lilypond already has a shortage of developers without
>> taking on parallelism.
>>
>> In the context of the original remark (making lilypond more suited as
>> a rendering engine), multithreading is simply a stupid way to spend
>> programmer resources. If you're writing a GUI using Lily as a
>> renderer, have the GUI manage the data structures (and possibly, the
>> parallelism), so LilyPond can suffice to stay "simple" and
>> single-threaded,
> Where does the GUI come from?
See Lucas Gonzo's mail earlier in the thread,
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, (continued)
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, David Kastrup, 2012/08/05
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, George_, 2012/08/06
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Tim Roberts, 2012/08/06
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, David Kastrup, 2012/08/06
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/08/06
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/08/06
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/08/06
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, George_, 2012/08/06
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/08/06
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, George_, 2012/08/07
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down,
Han-Wen Nienhuys <=
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, George_, 2012/08/07
- Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down, Martin Tarenskeen, 2012/08/08
- Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down], Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/08/10
- Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down], David Kastrup, 2012/08/10
- Re: Parallelizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down], Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/08/10
- Re: Parallelizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down], David Kastrup, 2012/08/10
- Re: Parallelizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down], Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/08/10
- Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown], Phil Holmes, 2012/08/10
- Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown], Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2012/08/10
- Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown], Phil Holmes, 2012/08/10