[vorbis] Distributed ogg encoded

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Justin Graham wrote:

> I was hoping for something to the effect of a multithreaded encoder so
> that it could utilize all of the nodes at the same time to work on one
> ogg, but like I said, this is just for fun.  Thanks.

On an SMP box, this would make sense, but on a distributed cluster, the
latency inherent in network communication would kill the performance of your
app.  Since most people want to encode many files at once, making the unit of
work for each node a whole file is not usually a problem.

(This is aside from the issues of actually making a threaded implementation
which Monty mentioned.)


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Stan Seibert

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