Hello,

Benchmark of a loop doing './sbcenc big_buck_bunny_480p_stereo.au > /dev/null'
is listed below. The number of iterations was different for ARM and x86, so
absolute times for x86 and ARM can't be directly compared :)

=== ARM Cortex-A8 ===

before:

real    0m 12.51s
user    0m 11.00s
sys     0m 0.58s

after:

real    0m 11.50s
user    0m 10.04s
sys     0m 0.54s

=== Intel Core2 ===

before:

real    0m12.139s
user    0m11.817s
sys     0m0.300s

after:

real    0m10.074s
user    0m9.797s
sys     0m0.256s

===

Overall improvement is more visible on x86, but it is still good for ARM too.
Code size increases quite noticeably, but this seems to pay off anyway.


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Best regards,
Siarhei Siamashka