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

[Segher Boessenkool]

> 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>

Writing that much data to /dev/null is cosiderably _slower_ than writing
it to disk (because a lot more system calls are required, as /dev/null is
a character device).

Segher

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