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

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 10/08/12 15:08, Phil Holmes wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Rushton Wakeling"
> <address@hidden>
> > What counts as a "chunk" for the -djob-count option?  It's not clear from the
> > 2.15 usage manual.
>
> I believe it would be a compilable file.

Useful to know, thank you!

... but I think it emphasizes my real point: this puts the onus on the user to 
split up a project into independently-compilable units.  I think that it's worth 
having Lilypond try and automatically identify independent units, which could 
have knock-on benefits in terms of minimizing rebuild times for scores.