Re: Technical question

[Simon Albrecht]

On 07.04.2016 21:51, Philip Bergwerf wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> in the past i have woked with blender which is a 3d open source modelling,
> animation program. And i noticed that when you have a fast video card, the
> pogram works much faster. How about lilypond? lilypond works very slow in
> grapic way. When my score becomes bigger i have to wait long to see my
> result and this slows me down in my working proces.
>
> So i was wondering if lilypond could work faster if the calculations are
> calculated by the gpu in stead if the cpu? Because that is another sort of
> processor?

My understanding is quite limited, but I believe this can’t give you 
much of an advantage, since most of the calculations done in LilyPond 
are not directly about graphics. If you compile a larger score, you’ll 
see that most of the time goes by with ‘Interpreting music’, 
‘Preprocessing graphical objects’, and ‘Fitting music onto <x> pages’. 
Most of these are heuristic algorithms trying to find the best layout, 
not actually drawing the score.

HTH, Simon