On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
She has tried a patch which plays 4 videos at the same time and she
experience much worse performance than I do with the same patch and same
videos on my intel core duo 2.1 GHz pc. I'm not sure if the macbook may
have a slower hard disk or a less powerful gpu, but the difference in
performance is about a factor 2, it's huge.....
Try it with four videos short enough so that the hard disk is not getting
accessed after they have looped. Then measure performance while the hard
disk is not being accessed. This will give you figures independent of
hard-disk speed.
It's not just the speed of the hard-disk and GPU, it's also the speed of
the connector between the CPU and the GPU, and the connector between the
CPU and the hard disk.
Also the speed of the hard disk differs depending on whether your data is
fragmented. If you have four "defragmented" files you are trying to read
continuously little bit by little bit, you're actually doing a very
fragmented reading. What happens if you glue together the four videos as
one big video ? does the hard disk work less ?
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