pippin;694602 Wrote: > Cache miss rates would be the same or lower with flac. In the end you > are processing the same amount of data and it's a lot and it's size is > determined by the DECODED file size, the ENCODED file size is lower > with flac and you actually have to process all of it, even if wav is > just a raw pcm stream. > > So if your rationale holds, wav must be worse than flac.
Actually I was thinking more about code than data. The assumption being that a mainloop for processing PCM is probably a lot simpler than the loop for processing flac, thus giving a higher probability of a cache miss on the code. I haven't actually analyzed the code or run them through a processor simulator etc so I don't know for sure. In a couple weeks I will have my new groundplane noise analyzer up and running and I will be able to tell if there really is a difference there. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93970 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
