Am 08.04.2016 um 00:15 schrieb Simon Albrecht: > On 07.04.2016 21:51, Philip Bergwerf wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> in the past i have woked with blender which is a 3d open source >> modelling, >> animation program. And i noticed that when you have a fast video >> card, the >> pogram works much faster. How about lilypond? lilypond works very >> slow in >> grapic way. When my score becomes bigger i have to wait long to see my >> result and this slows me down in my working proces. >> >> So i was wondering if lilypond could work faster if the calculations are >> calculated by the gpu in stead if the cpu? Because that is another >> sort of >> processor? > > My understanding is quite limited, but I believe this can’t give you > much of an advantage, since most of the calculations done in LilyPond > are not directly about graphics. If you compile a larger score, you’ll > see that most of the time goes by with ‘Interpreting music’, > ‘Preprocessing graphical objects’, and ‘Fitting music onto <x> pages’. > Most of these are heuristic algorithms trying to find the best layout, > not actually drawing the score.
Even if it *is* drawing the score it does so by creating PostScript commands. Everything where the graphics card might help is the *display* of the score - and that is done exclusively in the PDF viewer - after LilyPond has finished its job. Urs > > HTH, Simon > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
