----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Tarenskeen" <m.tarensk...@zonnet.nl>
To: "lilypond-user mailinglist" <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:42 AM
Subject: lilypond speed
Some day soon my still reliable but not very fast 10 year old laptop will
have to be replaced by a more modern machine.
Will Lilypond benifit much if my next computer will have one of those
modern multi-core processors like the Intel i3/5/7 ?
I'm just curious.
--
Martin
If you're using Windows, you definitely won't see an improvement with a
multi-core machine. LilyPond is single-threaded, and so can only use a
single core at a given time. It may be that your new machine will have more
memory, and this is definitely beneficial for large scores, where Lily can
take a lot of memory. Whether the processor will be faster depends solely
on the processing power of _one_ of the cores of your new CPU versus the
power of your old one.
--
Phil Holmes
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