On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Michael David Crawford<mich...@geometricvisions.com> wrote: > > > Peter Chubb wrote: >> >> Han-Wen> More importantly: LilyPond is single-threaded, so the number >> Han-Wen> of cores is irrelevant. > > While LilyPond may be single threaded, in general the underlying operating > system is multithreaded. It might be the case that a system call LilyPond > depends on can get executed in a multithreaded way.
LilyPond almost does not interact with the OS except for reading and writing a couple of files. It's CPU bound. -- 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
