[vorbis-dev] Parallelism

[Segher Boessenkool]

> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Adam Scriven wrote:
> 
> > [snipped]
> > advantage of it (I want to do this for my CD collection, too.  Got some 
> > spare 486's kicking around. 8-) ).
> 
> This was the motivation for parallel bladeenc -- I just got tired of
> waiting around for my CDs to be encoded.  :-)

The slower part of encoding cd's to mp3 is ripping the cd's. At least,
my best cdrom player rips cdda only at 11x speed.

> 
> > Is the coding required for parallelism detrimental in for single-CPU
> > uses?
> 
> Not sure what you mean here...

He means if the 'normal' code gets any slower.

I would suggest making separate source files for 'multi' encoding, calling
the correct 'single' routines. Probably the program flow will be
different from the 'single' encoder.

Ciao,

Segher

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