Damn it, my computer isn't fast enough

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Debugging VHDL takes so damn long. Compiling my circuit takes about 2 minutes every time on a 3 GHz P4 (Hyperthreaded, though that doesn't really matter since the compiler is single-threaded.

Edit: hit enter too fast...

 

[Ikonomi]

I dunno, it was so fast it posted this thread before you even finished the title. :Q

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: Ikonomi
I dunno, it was so fast it posted this thread before you even finished the title. :Q

No that's my lack of typing skills, which is another story altogether

 

[notfred]

It's taking me about 20 hours to encode a movie with 3ivx.

Oddly enough, CPU usage never goes over 5% while decoding the same movie.

 

[Koing]

How much ram you using?

Koing

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: notfred
It's taking me about 20 hours to encode a movie with 3ivx.
Oddly enough, CPU usage never goes over 5% while decoding the same movie.

encoding and decoding isn't a symmetric process (as you can tell). There are many steps that are computationally intensive when encoding but relatively trivial to decode.
As a simplistic example, determining which way a macroblock is moving when encoding is a helluva lot more computationally intensive than applying a translation to a macroblock when decoding.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: Koing
How much ram you using?

Koing

not that much... something like 450 MB in task manager, the process itself is about 125 MB, I have a gig so it has plenty of space to fit in. It's just really computationally intensive for the software to do chip layout.

 

[thomsbrain]

single threaded apps go faster without HT.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain
single threaded apps go faster without HT.

Very marginally faster. I don't think I'd notice shaving a couple of seconds on a 2-3 minute job from disabling HT.

 

[her209]

Time to invest in a server blade.

 

[Gurck]

Overclock