Re: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shutsdown]

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 11:46 AM
Subject: Paralellizing Lilypond [was: Re: Sibelius Software UK office 
shutsdown]

> Yes, but the problem that you have there is that it requires the user to 
> separate out the projects manually using some kind of build system like 
> Make.  I don't see why in principle Lilypond shouldn't be able to work out 
> those independent jobs itself -- essentially any elements separated by a 
> page break can be handled as a separate job, and there must be other 
> further optimizations available.

If you could break it up into 8 chunks, you could use all 8 cores in a quad 
core system using -djob-count.  No need to use make.

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Phil Holmes