WOW!!! Apple Silicon support!!!
On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 8:03 AM Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user
discussion <lilypond-u...@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
