Re: Technical question

[David Kastrup]

David Wright <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri 08 Apr 2016 at 01:43:01 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote:
>> tyronicus <address@hidden> writes:
>> > David Kastrup wrote
>> >> LilyPond will not make use of a graphics card.  Indeed, for a single
>> >> score, LilyPond will not make use of more than a single CPU core.
>> >
>> > After Lily decides how many systems to draw, could she
>> > use multiple threads to draw systems simultaneously?
>> 
>> There are various phases of typesetting that could conceivably work
>> parallely on several configurations at once.
>
> I suppose the obvious pair could be midi and layout, followed by
> bookparts. But I only have two cores and one is likely to be being
> hammered by playing music from a video file.

No, Midi is fast enough not to be much of an issue.  It would be rather
different typeset renditions of the same material based on different
tentative breakpoints.

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David Kastrup