[vorbis-dev] Parallelism

[Segher Boessenkool]

> >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 ?

[note: I'm not the original poster]

Even my old K5 model 1, 100 MHz can encode (mp3) at 11.5x. That is just
faster than my ripping speed, so I don't need parallel encoding. I
suspect most people don't. But anyone who cares about it can implement
it themselves, of course.

Ciao,

Segher

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