[Flac-dev] multiple cores?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Scott C. Brown 02 wrote:

> A question that someone asked me, cut and pasted from another board:
> 
> >>I've got 8 cores on my machine and while encoding only one processor is used,
> and maxed out. Is there any way to distribute the load across multi-cores?<<
> 
> I have no idea what the answer to this is.  The question was about flac on OS X

The only way to distribute FLAC encoding load across CPUS is
to use N separate flac processes to encode N separate files.

Erik
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