[vorbis-dev] Parallelism

[Jose Mejuto]

At 21:04 18/08/00 -0400, you wrote:

Hello,

> > Ripping can be *much* faster than encoding.  Logically speaking, you have
> > a producer (or producers) and a consumer (or consumers).  The ripper(s)
> > produce the input, and the encoder(s) consume the input.  Since one side
> > is clearly faster than the other, I don't see why trying to speed up the
> > other side is a Bad Thing.
>
>I disagree. The fastest commercially available ripping driver is the
>Plextor Ultraplex. On my desktop I can encode (into MP3, there is no
>strong reason to expect that vorbis will not be someday comparable to lame
>in speed) faster then I can rip on that drive.

WOW!! Can you encode/compress at 20x +/- ??? What CPU(s) do you have ?

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