On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 collver@linuxfreemail.com wrote:

: > As for performance, decoding 192kbit mp3s on a 233MHz StrongARM uses
: > ~33% cpu time with (a not current version of) madplay.
:
: Since you mentioned performance, I'll throw in my two cents.  Using mpg123
: from pkgsrc I can listen to my mp3's and do other things like use netscape
: and compile stuff.  madplay skips even when I am doing nothing else.  I
: have an Intel p120 with 48megs of memory at the moment.

Well, a Pentium 120 doesn't quite have the processing power of a StrongARM
233 in integer operations -- but the P120 does have immensely faster
floating point, which is probably why mpg123 is so much better.

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