[G4] iTunes Speed/Performance Feedback

[Kunga]

Running a 7200 RPM 100GB WD inside the 500 MHz Cube. The optical on 
your 933 may be your bottleneck. I'm surprised to hear you're only 
getting 14x on a 933. AAC @ 192 kbps?

k
Also from another 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 01:59 PM, Mel wrote:

>  Your Cube has only a 100 MHz bus and a 5400 rpm disk drive (if it's 
> still stock) which adds more of a bottleneck. Now, a 1.2 GHz processor 
> may give you some boost, but since I don't see much faster operation 
> on a machine with a 133 MHz bus and a 7200 rpm drive, the problem may 
> be more with the ripping operation than the processor.