Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Hardware reccomendation

[Takehiro Tominaga]

>>So, when you get only rates around 0.3x, then there are following possibilities:
>>a)    your test song is hard to encode
>>b)    you use an older, slower version of LAME
>>c)    your compiler does some strange things
>>d)    your Pentium runs at half speed
e) your machine has no 2nd cache or poorly setting BIOS.

Be sure machine speed is not determined by only CPU clock.
check your CPU architecture and memory performance.

Pentium/K6/686MX is very slow, cause it has only slow FPU. even at the
same clock, Pentium will be half or 3/4 speed of Pentium Pro for the
encoding.
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Takehiro TOMINAGA // may the source be with you!
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