[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Show Subversion revision number in the version string

[Uoti Urpala]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:20 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> real    0m18.840s
> user    0m0.252s
> sys     0m0.253s

Was this really for ffmpeg? It's nearly an order of magnitude slower
than what anyone else reported (note that the 11 seconds reported by
?smail was for mplayer, not ffmpeg). 

> Athlon XP 2200+ here, with disks chosen for data capacity and virtually
> zero priority given to speed (which doesn't mean that they're the
> world's slowest, just that they're not especially fast) - and as you can
> see, it did indeed take significantly longer.

I think you must at least be using an inefficient filesystem if you get
an order of magnitude slower result without _really_ old/slow disks.