Re: Technical question

[Hans Åberg]

> On 8 Apr 2016, at 00:15, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> 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