[vorbis] RC3: I'm impressed

[Matt Hodge]

> 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.

Could this be a result of a lack of decent floating-point support in those
processors? Something an integerized vorbis would fix?

Matt

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