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Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down


From: George_
Subject: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 22:26:10 -0700 (PDT)



Han-Wen Nienhuys-5 wrote:
> 
> 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,
> 
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This one here?
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Sibelius-Software-UK-office-shuts-down-p34246393.html

The reason I ask is, how will such a GUI compare in terms of features,
compatibility, and speed, to others already available, as well as to things
like LilyPondTool for jEdit?
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