In message <4960746d.2040...@floetenbau.ch>, Thomas Fehr
<thomas.f...@floetenbau.ch> writes
Hi
I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where
short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk
could help. Does anyone know how to do that?
Which OS.
If you're running linux, read up on tmpfs (and/or unionfs).
Basically, you'll need to set all your lilypond stuff up in one
directory. Then (if you're using tmpfs) copy that stuff into your tmpfs
mount and run it from there.
If you use unionfs (which I don't actually know anything about) you may
be able to declare that as ram and just mount it over your lily
directory.
The difference between the two is that tmpfs simply creates a
file-system in ram (masking the directory it's mounted over, hence you
having to copy the lily stuff into that directory), while unionfs will
create a "see through" filesystem over the mountpoint - any writes will
go to the unionfs, while any reads, if they can't be found in the
unionfs will look in the directory under the mount. So if you can mount
the unionfs in ram, that's probably your best bet.
Cheers,
Wol
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Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk
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