On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Peter Chubb<lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> I think you'll find the main difference is in size of L2/L3 cache, > and amount of RAM. Lily (like many object-oriented programs) tends to > have quite a deep stack, and to use lots of memory --- which it > visits in what looks to the processor like random orders --- so small > caches generate lots of cache misses, which slows things down. If you > run out of RAM and have to swap, things get even worse. More importantly: LilyPond is single-threaded, so the number of cores is irrelevant. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
