[mad-user] winamp plugin speed

[Rob Leslie]

Gabriel Bouvigne <bouvigne@mp3-tech.org> wrote:
> Isn't mad supposed to be faster than mpg123? In this case, why is in_mad
> much slower than in_mpg123?

MAD is only faster than mpg123 on hardware without native floating-point
support.

It's not clear whether MAD can be made faster than mpg123 on x86 hardware
given its fixed-point implementation, but the performance issue is still being
worked on. It can certainly be improved.

Cheers,

-- 
Rob Leslie
rob@mars.org