[vorbis-dev] Parallelism

[Andy Key]

>That's why, if you see the MP3 ripping/encoding programs, that the encoding
>is always a forked child, because it takes MUCH more time than ripping
>does.  It's also much more CPU intensive.

Actually, in my ripper (for Win32) I've got ripping and encoding both off in 
their own threads, to allow the GUI to still be responsive.  I suspect that 
others do as well.

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