I've been testing an mp3 encoder for 68040 macs with fpu and here are some times I'm getting using Basilisk (Basilisk speed roughly equivalent to a 68040 25Mhz with fpu).

With a fast option (less quality) I get about a minute of an aiff file encoded in an hour at 128 kbps.

With the fast option off (higher quality) I get a minute of an aiff file encoded in 1 1/2 hours at 128 kbps.

If I encode at 192 kbps it doesn't seem to be that much slower.

If you have a 68040 with fpu idle you could use it to encode mp3s.

If anyone wants more details email me.

so a 30 minute cd would take almost a day (20 hours) at 128k. That's a scary. I thought my g3 encoding at 3x in osx was slow...

EDIT:
so a 30 minute cd would take over a day (30 hours). That's a scary. I thought my g3 encoding at 3x in osx was slow...

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