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> Compression of preset -3 through -8 was slightly improved at the cost of a small decrease in encoding speed by increasing the precision with which autocorrela
by theandrewbailey 4y ago
> Compression of preset -3 through -8 was slightly improved at the cost of a small decrease in encoding speed by increasing the precision with which autocorrelation was calculated (Martijn van Beurden)
Would love to see some benchmarks on this. Since FLAC hit 1.0 over 20 years ago, CPU speed has increased by ~100x, so a small hit on encode speed for better compression mostly doesn't matter. Then again, storage space has increased by the same amount, too.
- mmozeiko 4y agoBtw there are alternative flac encoders, like FLACCL using GPU: http://cue.tools/wiki/FLACCL http://cue.tools/wiki/FLACCL It compresses much faster than software libflac and gives smaller output files.