Compiling a large score - real world example

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:38:46 -0800

I mentioned a while ago that I'd been working on a complete score for "The Mikado". I've now completed it, bar the overture. At a global staff size of 16 point, it comes to 143 pages. I compiled it on an XP Pro virtual machine running on my Vista Home-64 system - partly so that nothing else impinged on the compile, and partly so I could use the Performance monitor to check memory usage - this doesn't work on my Vista installation. The VM had 2 Gigs of memory.
It took almost exactly 1500 seconds to compile on 2.13.35. Peak virtual memory was 1.3 Gigs. It's not a single \new Score, but one per song in the show - 24 in total. However, just to make breaking calcs slightly more difficult, each song runs on from the previous - no pagebreaks. 

The graph below shows how memory was allocated by LP.

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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad


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