> On 8 Apr 2016, at 00:15, Simon Albrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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.
A language like OpenCL [1] allows the code to execute also on the GPU. Because of the strong development of graphics, there is a movement using the GPU for other computing tasks as well. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
