Dorico 4 on Apple M1: comparing rosetta and native modes

[dspreadbury]

In case you’re wondering what the “1000-bar condense benchmark” is, see this earlier thread.

Dorico performance benchmarks?

I’m getting ready to upgrade my AMD CPU. I was thinking it would be handy to work up a series of benchmarks to measure Dorico’s performance on any particular machine. I know there are plenty of benchmark tests available, but I mostly only care about Dorico in this case. I know it would have to be a little informal, but I’d be really interested… both to see how the upgrade affects performance, and to see how other users’ machine perform. If these tests were sufficiently taxing, they could be a …