benchmarking
Intel Core i7-4770 testing with a MSI H87-G43 (MS-7816) v1.0 (V2.14B11 BIOS) and Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP on Ubuntu 17.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


ubik-audio: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: MSI H87-G43 (MS-7816) v1.0 (V2.14B11 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MT/s, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2000FYYZ-0, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4

ubik-audio2: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: MSI H87-G43 (MS-7816) v1.0 (V2.14B11 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MT/s, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2000FYYZ-0, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4

ubik-audio3: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: MSI H87-G43 (MS-7816) v1.0 (V2.14B11 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MT/s, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD2000FYYZ-0, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
ubik-audio .. 11.68 |==========================================================
ubik-audio2 . 11.67 |==========================================================
ubik-audio3 . 11.77 |==========================================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
ubik-audio .. 32.45 |==========================================================
ubik-audio2 . 32.44 |==========================================================
ubik-audio3 . 32.42 |==========================================================


WavPack Audio Encoding 5.1
WAV To WavPack
Seconds < Lower Is Better
ubik-audio .. 6.87 |===========================================================
ubik-audio2 . 6.86 |===========================================================
ubik-audio3 . 6.86 |===========================================================