[vorbis] Performance tests

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Erik Olofsson wrote:

> I did some testing of vorbis codec (Winamp plugin) on a Pentium 166 MMX, and
> found that the performance is pretty good. I got 3 % cpu utisization if I
> turned dithering off, and 5 % otherwise. This was with a 138 kbit song. It's
> pretty long to mp3 performance that was 0 to 1 % on that machine for a 128
> kbit song. 

As Michael pointed out, this seems quite low.  My rough tests were showing
30-40% CPU use w/ Pentium 166 decoding ogg.


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Stan Seibert

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