Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Hardware reccomendation

[Segher Boessenkool]

> > Computational speed, and cache size seem to be the most important

Cache size and speed are the only important factor if you have cache misses,
and you own an Intel processor. Cache misses are _extremely_ expensive.

The P166 MMX and up have a better cache than the P133 and down. But my
lowly K5-100 beats the P166 hands down. Hey, it doesnt matter if your
fmul takes 4 instead of 3 cycles, if the competitor first has to wait 60+
cycles until its data finally arrives...

This is why I encode both channels separately in PEM. (i.e., a granule
mid channel, a granule side channel, a granule mid, etc.)

Oh, by the way, anyone interested in better DCT's?


Nou dag dag,

Segher

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