[vorbis-dev] Parallelism

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Timothy Wayper wrote:

> Well, what it I want to compress my original Tubular Bells CD, which I
> happen to be listening to at the moment, that only has two continuous
> tracks, each 20 minutes long? What if I only want to compress one of these
> tracks but I have 4 CPU's in my machine? I really don't think your idea of
> "sensible workloads" is valid, unless all the music you listen too is in
[snip]

I don't understand why you would need multiple cpus doing encoding if all
you are encoding is a single track or single CD. It's just silly, and a
waste of time. People who are already doing bulk encoding (encoded over
1000 CDs into mp3, about to begin again redoing it all w/ vorbis) are
perfectly happy with the one track or one disk to cpu method. The human
loading the disks into the drives and checking the CDDB results (and doing
complete entry in the frequent case where the CDDB data is missing or very
inaccurate) is the limiting factor and all the CPUs and MPI parallel
encoders in the world can't help.

If you have code to do it with minimal impact to the source
base, then great. Until then the discussion should stop.

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