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Subject: Re: Unix vs Windows...slightly disappointing results...
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
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On 12 Mar, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to The Hermit Hacker:
>> Why does it take a quarter of the time under WinNT?
> 
> Because the various free encoders don't use the same algorithms as the
> proprietary ones. I've tried Xing codec software which is almost 1:1 but
> all the others are at least 1:3... The fastest "free" one seems to be
> BladeEnc.
> 
wild guess, but its quite possible the windows system is using some of
the newer instructions in the proccessor that allow mass moving and
changing of data formats rather quickly that, that gcc doesn't
understand at all..

rob



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