Faster Audio Decoding/Encoding Coming To Ogg & FLAC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Faster Audio Decoding/Encoding Coming To Ogg & FLAC

FLAC and Ogg now have faster audio encoding and decoding capabilities thanks to recent code improvements...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Faster-FLAC-Ogg-CRC-Performance

[caligula]

Does this also affect ARM? x86 is already able to decode at like 10000x realtime.

[Guest]

Nice work! Glad to see someone's working on this stuff
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[darkbasic]

How did he patch Monkey's Audio considering it's proprietary, closed source software?

[TheBlackCat]

How did he patch Monkey's Audio considering it's proprietary, closed source software?

From the licence: "Code changes and improvements must be contributed back to the Monkey's Audio project or made freely available, unless exempted by written consent of the author." So it doesn't look like FOSS, but patches are allowed.

[reavertm]

In before "FLAC encoder/decoder is being patched for Spectre"..

[enzo1982]

Patch author here. Feel free to ask questions.

Does this also affect ARM? x86 is already able to decode at like 10000x realtime.

Yes, the patches are architecture independent. However, I did not measure the speedup on ARM yet.

How did he patch Monkey's Audio considering it's proprietary, closed source software?

It's open source, but under a proprietary, not OSI approved license.

[kaprikawn]

Good stuff, now I need Audacious to not be a flaky piece of crap and a music player that isn't a crock of poop and all my audio needs will be met on Linux.

[ssam]

Does this also affect ARM? x86 is already able to decode at like 10000x realtime.

It looks like it would help all platforms. It is using a lookup table to reduce the number of calculations needed. Its not a specific vector optimisation like AVX.

I suppose there is a small risk that it increases the code size, so might slow some CPUs with a small cache. It would be nice to have an ARM benchmark.

[microcode]

FLAC decoding was already crazy fast, so a little faster, even better. :- )