Flac - Jul 2005 - Non-consistent Size

I have converted the same wav file with FLAC 1.1.2 on
two different machines. Flac on these two machines was
installed at different times (about 2 months apart)
but the version incl all the file sizes and time
stamps are the same so I am pretty sure it's exactly
the same program. Despite that the two machines
produce different results. Nevertheless, after
converting the flac files back to wav the result on
both machines are the same. So the question is what is
going on here? Are the algorithms used different on
different machines? In my case one of them is a dual
Athlon and the other one a Pentium M. 

Rob 





		
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--- "Rob M." <rmdiv2000@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I have converted the same wav file with FLAC 1.1.2 on
> two different machines. Flac on these two machines was
> installed at different times (about 2 months apart)
> but the version incl all the file sizes and time
> stamps are the same so I am pretty sure it's exactly
> the same program. Despite that the two machines
> produce different results. Nevertheless, after
> converting the flac files back to wav the result on
> both machines are the same. So the question is what is
> going on here? Are the algorithms used different on
> different machines? In my case one of them is a dual
> Athlon and the other one a Pentium M. 
there are different code paths through the encoder chosen at
runtime that are optimized for different environments which can
create different streams.  nothing to worry about.

Josh


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