On Thu 09 Mar 2000 at 07:27:40 -0800, Alistair G. Crooks wrote:
> Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in February 2000
> ==========================================================

> reading them with cdparanoia. (If you're into that kind of thing,
> I've heard good reports of libffm giving a 3x speedup to lame on
> an Alpha).

I get a factor of slightly above 2, but the resulting mp3 file is far
from identical to before. There is an identical prefix of some
considerable length on my test file:

track02.cdda.wav.libffm.mp3 track02.cdda.wav.mp3 differ: char 1570351,
line 6453

but from there on the difference goes on for a while, for a total of
almost 40 K different bytes.

1570351 323 325
1570352  10 260
1570353  13  25
1570354 121 366
1570355 266 111
1570356 333  44
1570357 226 273
etc...

Such a difference is probably totally inaudible, but seems a bit
worrying anyway.

-Olaf.
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