lame benchmarks (pun intended)

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lame AKsack.wav
LAME 3.97 32bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 16538 Hz - 17071 Hz
Encoding AKsack.wav to AKsack.wav.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz 128 kbps j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (11x) qval=3
    Frame          |  CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU |    ETA
 10529/10529 (100%)|    0:14/    0:14|    0:15/    0:15|   19.493x|    0:00
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   kbps        MS  %     long switch short %
  128.0      100.0        76.1  13.4  10.5
Writing LAME Tag...done
ReplayGain: +0.5dB

Dual G5 2.7GHz - OSX 10.5.8 - old version and writing to a single drive - anyone got a PPC AltiVec OSX compiled version they can send me?  I only have a really old copy of XCode on this machine.

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Hehe Google is your friend...

 ./lame AKsack.wav
LAME 3.99.5 32bits (http://lame.sf.net)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 16538 Hz - 17071 Hz
Encoding AKsack.wav to AKsack.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (11x) 128 kbps qval=3
    Frame          |  CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU |    ETA
 10529/10529 (100%)|    0:07/    0:07|    0:07/    0:07|   39.013x|    0:00
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   kbps        MS  %     long switch short %
  128.0      100.0        74.4  13.4  12.2
Writing LAME Tag...done
ReplayGain: +0.5dB

It appears to be using both cores.