Some samples of Intel "quad cores" processors are now available. As with the introduction of dual cores, we'll see a lot of hardware websites doing some benchmarks. Several of them will also use LAME encoding as one of the tests.

In the current version (3.97) LAME is not multithreaded at all, so for a single encoding it's obvious that adding cores will not change anything, no need to run a benchmark to know it, and no need to display bar graphs of encoding speed results (as they are quite pointless).


Message to benchmarkers:

If you want to use mp3 encoding for a multicores/multiprocessors benchmarks, then you have the following choices:

*use a natively multithreaded encoder (example: iTunes)

*use a multithreaded frontend and encode several files. As an example, EAC allows you to choose the number of threads. If you use more than 1, of course you will benefit from the added cores.

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