[vorbis-dev] Parallelism

[Adam Scriven]

At 14:58 2000/08/16 +0000, you wrote:
>>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.

That makes sense too.  I generally rip/encode in Linux, so I don't have to 
worry about stuff like that.
8-)

Adam

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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