Re: CPU usage and barchecks

[David Kastrup]

Antonio Gervasoni <address@hidden> writes:

> I wonder if having a barcheck for every measure has something to do
> with this. The score I'm working on has 25 staves and is 220 bars
> long. Also, of those 25 staves, 9 are used for two instruments so in
> the end it's just like having 34 staves. Then, 34*220 makes 7,480
> barchecks. If I remove almost all the barchecks and leave just a few,
> would that make a difference on how much CPU is used?

No.  Bar checks don't do any accounting of their own, they just check an
existing counter for being on a bar boundary at a particular point of
processing.  I doubt that you would notice a significant difference if
you had 100 bar checks every bar.

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David Kastrup