Re: Performance Anxiety..

From: John Lazzaro (lazzaro@CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Wed Sep 01 1999 - 12:01:47 EDT


Hi Mike,

        Here's a benchmark table for sfront -- eventually this will
be part of our website, updated as sfront gets optimized and as
a better benchmark suite develops, but this should give a sense
of what to expect in both compression ratio and run time.

        BTW, there's now an v0.38 version of sfront available
at:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa

        This should be functionally identical to sfront 0.37, except
it incoporates lots of changes to reduce the warning messages for
Borland C++ under windows (thanks to Ross Bencina for these changes!).

                                                --john lazzaro

P.S. The "physical model" examples aren't in the sfront/examples/
directory yet, we'll be cleaning them up and putting them there
eventually -- these are all taken from the examples in John
Wawrzynek's chapter in "Current Directions in Computer Music
Research", a book by MIT Press published in 1989, Max Mathews and John
Pierce editors.

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Sfront Benchmark Table

Sfront version 0.36

Machine: 450 Mhz Pentium III, 128 MB, gcc version egcs-2.91.66, -O3 optimizer

Audio sample rate: 44.1 kHz for all examples

R = compression ratio = (WAV filesize)/(compressed filesize)

M = mono example -- all others are stereo

Timing Filesizes (bytes) ------- ----------------

Name Seconds of Sound Seconds to Compute WAV MP3 MP4-SA ---- ---------------- ------------------ ---- --- ------

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abar 10 2.38 (./sa) 880132 79829 1353 M Aluminum Bar 4.13 (sfront/ (R = 11) (R = 650) Strike Physical gcc/ Model ./sa)

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beat 60 7.51 (./sa) 10584380 960036 2382 FM Models and 11.51 (sfront/ (R = 11) (R = 4443) Algorithmic gcc/ Composition ./sa)

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elpelele 265.5 308.34 (./sa) 46840860 4248846 1711968

Solo Piano 317.88 (sfront/ (R = 11) (R = 27) Performance with gcc/ Multi-Sample ./sa) Piano Sound

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flute 10 0.82 (./sa) 880132 79823 1163 M Blown Pipe 2.23 (sfront/ (R = 11) (R = 756) Physical gcc/ Model ./sa)

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marimba 10 2.08 (./sa) 880132 79823 1119 M Marimba 3.75 (sfront/ (R = 11) (R = 786) Physical gcc/ Model ./sa)

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perc 58.8 40.64 (./sa) 10384484 942069 1355803

Sampled Drum Kit 60.68 (sfront/ (R = 11) (R = 7.6) with Reverb and gcc/ Spatializarion ./sa)

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pc 67.2 91.36 (./sa) 11841500 1074152 27265

FM Models in 96.17 (sfront/ (R = 11) (R = 434) a Multi-Voice gcc/ Composition ./sa)

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scr1 128.268 43.16 (./sa) 22626428 2052591 316861

Solo Piano 46.73 (R = 11) (R = 71.4) Performance with Single Piano Sample

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string 10 2.37 (./sa) 880132 79824 1390 M Plucked (R = 11) (R = 633) String 4.15 (sfront/ Physical gcc/ Model ./sa)

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vowels 10 0.89 (./sa) 880264 80033 1261 M Vowel Formant 2.35 (sfront/ (R = 11) (R = 698) Synthesizer gcc/ ./sa)

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