Re: CPU stress tests for LilyPond

[Thomas Scharkowski]

Hi,

the Carver takes 10.6“ to compile on my MacBook Pro M1 16GB RAM with LilyPond 
2.23.5

Hth


> Am 02.12.2021 um 02:55 schrieb Paolo Prete <paolopr976@gmail.com>:
> 
> Note too that there's a list of the results for the Gzip test:
> 
> https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/compress-gzip
> 
> From this list it appears to me that Intel Core i5-11600k could be the "gold" 
> PC for LilyPond...  
> 
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 2:41 AM Paolo Prete <paolopr976@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Hans,
> 
> I don't think this test can give reliable results for what we need to compare.
> With my processor (Intel Celeron N3350) it took 96 seconds to compile MSDN.ly 
> 
> But my CPU is listed with score 287:
> https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-celeron-n3350
> ---> (1712 / 287)
> 
> From what I see,  is it true that geekbench 5 is single core, but it 
> intensively uses RAM and the test we need should not be focused on RAM. I 
> would consider a Gzip compression test, instead.
> 
> https://openbenchmarking.org/vs/Processor/Apple%20M1,Intel%20Celeron%20J3455
> 
> (note that it compares Apple M1 with Celeron J3455, which is NOT my CPU, but 
> it should be very similar for single-core tests.)
> 
> The result is 91 / 40 which is very similar to 96 seconds / 40 seconds 
> (Jacque's test)  . I don't know if this is a coincidence and please, if you 
> all have more data, share it.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 5:56 PM Hans Åberg <haberg-1@telia.com> wrote:
> So, to illustrate the idea of using the benchmark at the list below, it might 
> be the Mac mini (Late 2020) with single-core score 1712 and the other Macs of 
> this year have a similar performance. It gives for the iMac 2008 used a 
> single-core score 372 (depending on model), and it took 4–5 minutes to 
> compile the same example. Then 1712/407 = 4.6, and dividing 4 minutes with 
> that gives 53 seconds, and this ignores speedups in lilypond self, but it 
> seems one can get a rough idea of performance this way.
> 
> https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks
> 
> 
> > On 30 Nov 2021, at 16:36, Jacques Menu <imj-muzhic@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Here is what I get for this 102 page score:
> > 
> > jacquesmenu@macmini > time lilypond MSDM.ly
> > GNU LilyPond 2.22.1
> > ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
> > ;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
> > … … … …
> > real  0m39.590s
> > user  0m37.119s
> > sys   0m2.285s
> > 
> > jacquesmenu@macmini > ls -sal MSDM.*
> >    8 -rw-------@ 1 jacquesmenu  staff    2695 Nov 17  2016 MSDM.ly
> >   88 -rw-r--r--  1 jacquesmenu  staff   42641 Nov 30 16:32 MSDM.mid
> > 1888 -rw-r--r--  1 jacquesmenu  staff  963019 Nov 30 16:32 MSDM.pdf
> > 
> > The machine is a Mac Mini M1, 8GB RAM, 256 GB disk.
> > 
> > JM
> > 
> >> Le 30 nov. 2021 à 15:28, Hans Åberg <haberg-1@telia.com> a écrit :
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On 30 Nov 2021, at 14:26, Paolo Prete <paolopr976@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> I need to buy a new PC, more powerful than the one I own. The CPU and RAM 
> >>> must be chosen on the time required to produce LilyPond output. Are there 
> >>> any test sheets with different CPUs and the time they take to output a 
> >>> score that takes a long time to compile? In case this doesn't exist 
> >>> specifically for LilyPond, is there anything equivalent I can use?
> >> 
> >> There are general benchmarks, like those below, maybe the single core ones 
> >> can be useful.
> >> 
> >> https://browser.geekbench.com
> >> https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
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