Re: LilyPond 2.25.14

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Jonas;

  I've tried engraving a couple of randomly chosen previous engravings
(using LP 2.24.x) using the new LP 2.25.14 version on my Mac (Apple
Silicon).

  Since none of my engravings are large, most of them are one to two
pages in length, I thought there would be no noticable decrease in
engraving time, but I was wrong!  It IS noticably faster for even
small files :-)

  One thing I noticed is what one of my engravings had significant
change in apperance in the second and third page, as if I had inserted
a forced page break in two or three places.  There were no conversion
errors or warnings in any of my engravings.

  I don't know what was the cause of the speedup, but it is
appreciated! I have been using the MacPorts version of Lilypond 2.24.3
compared to this recent test release.

Thanks to all who have made this an awesome product!

Ken Wolcott

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 10:20 AM Kenneth Wolcott
<kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> WOW!!! Apple Silicon support!!!
>
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 8:03 AM Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user
> discussion <lilypond-user@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2024-03-23 at 14:25 +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
> > > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.25.14. This is
> > > termed a development release, but these are usually reliable for
> > > testing new features and recent bug fixes.
> >
> > Following this release, I made two special builds with the changes
> > proposed in https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2283
> > that would be great to get more widespread testing:
> >
> > Native Apple Silicon build: https://cloud.hahnjo.de/s/x9D62eASSn6Ng7D
> > This is a native arm64 version for macOS 12+; if you have a Mac, please
> > test and (hopefully) confirm the performance advantage over running the
> > x86_64 build via Rosetta 2 🙂
> >
> > Windows build with Guile JIT: https://cloud.hahnjo.de/s/Ek5x9rybpiPNtoj
> > This turns on just-in-time compilation that was added in Guile 3.0, but
> > we had to keep disabled on Windows until now. Please test, especially
> > on larger scores where this should provide a performance advantage.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jonas
>