[CUBE] iTunes Speed/Performance Feedback

[Kunga]

Yes I know what you mean Richard. I guess the quad 970 is needed 
yesterday after all. ; ^ )

But then again maybe multiprocessors are not an appropriate solution to 
audio compression.

To wit from the Digital Audio Workstation list:

Kunga, not all computational processes are amenable to parallel
implementations.  I would expect compression to be about as bad as that 
could
get because what you do next depends on everything you've done prior, 
the worst
possible scenario for parallelizing a process.

It's more a situation of invention than one of repair (as in "fix it") 
and would
depend a lot on the codec.  One would hope that AAC, being a newer 
codec design,
would have been had parallel impelementation in mind but I've not read 
that
anywhere.

Bob

On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 02:11 PM, Richard Clark wrote:

> If i had 3000 cd's to rip i'd be looking for quad cpu's :)
>
> Richard