[vorbis] Windows XP and MP3

[Segher Boessenkool]

Jack Moffitt wrote:
> 
> > This is too _small_ a difference to be realistic.
> 
> Not really. I got similar results with Winamp and Sonique.  There's a
> lot more going on that decoding, like Visualizations, GUI updates, and
> whatnot.  It seemed reasonabe that there would be a 2% difference.
> Especially when you consider that that 2% is probably the same 2% you
> see in mpg123, or nearly.  Visualizations take a fair amount of cpu.
> 
> > > P200, and Mp3 took ~20-22% where Ogg was ~24-25%.  Both were in Win98.
> >
> > These numbers are _way_ too high for a 200 MHz cpu, even if it is a P5.
> 
> Again, there's probably more stuff going on than just decoding audio.
> That's why testing winamp or sonique is almost futile.

Yeah, okay. Didn't think people wouldn't turn all this fancy stupid stuff
off before benchmarking. But alas, I like iTunes visualization as well ;-)

Cheerio,

Segher

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