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Old 01-17-2011, 02:57 AM   #21
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I had a book like this. I had left it running for a few hours on my laptop with no progress so I gave up.

I moved it to my desktop - a custom-built, dual core Phenom 550 Black Edition, unlocked to quad core and overclocked to 3.6ghz w/ 6GB DDR2 800 - it took 6-12 hours (not sure how long since I left the computer running when I went to work at night).

It was the CSS that took a long time to crunch, like others have said. I'm sure this same process would have took a day or more on my laptop (A Turion x2 tablet convertible).
Just as a side note: The multi-core isn't going to do squat for you while converting. The worker processes, from what I know, operate in one single thread each, thus, each worker process ( = each conversion) runs on one single core.
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