[vorbis] Why is ogg123 so much slower than XMMS?

[Wilson]

Can't you mount a loopback filesystem using /dev/null with losetup?

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From: "Hugo van der Merwe" <hugovdm at mail.com>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Why is ogg123 so much slower than XMMS?

<p>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:53:36AM -0000, Alen Ladavac wrote:
> > People, are you trying to profile a program by using system monitoring
> > tools? Again? It was discussed for Win32 last time on this ml (iirc),
but I
> > don't see why would it be much more accurate under other OSs. I mean,
task
> > schedulers are not ment to be used for profiling, they only give
approximate
> > info. The general rule of the thumb should be: don't use a tool for
> > something it is not designed for.
>
> Here's a quick thought on testing xmms speed: disk writer plugin ...
> problem is, disk writing speed will slow it down. So how can one write
> to /dev/null? It wants a directory, so that it can create a file inside
> it, maybe a ramdisk using tmpfs or something? But who's got that amount
> of RAM... we need a nullfs. <g>
>
> Other ideas for seeing how fast xmms really decodes? (Without running a
> compiler...)
>

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