[vorbis] RC3: I'm impressed

[Wilson]

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From: "John Morton" <jwm at plain.co.nz>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] RC3: I'm impressed

<p>> There is presently a noticable speed difference between the vorbis decoder
> and the mp3 decoder in xmms on sub Duron/Celeron system, which I expect
> people will use for things like dedicated jukeboxes at home, in the office
> and in DIY car stereo systems. It really starts to matter if the same
machine
> is doing other CPU intensive tasks, like decoding several streams at once,
> applying sound filters, displaying a video stream at the same time. A spot
of
> hand optimized assembly made a big difference to a lot of mp3 decoders, so
> there's no reason to think it won't improve the vorbis decoder.
>

What's a sub-Duron/Celeron? Something like a Via C3 or a Crusoe?

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