Renningen, November 19th, 2009. ThinkMeta Software UG (haftungsbeschränkt) based in Renningen, Germany, has made her multicore-capable FLAC encoder "fpFLAC" available for download under GPL license.

"fpFLAC" is re-implementation of the lossless Open Source audio encoder "FLAC" that uses the in-house multicore framework "Fiber Pool" for parallelization.

"fpFLAC" encodes 3.5x faster than "FLAC" on QuadCore processors and achieves a CPU efficiency of about 87%. Interested developers can find a description of the scalable algorithm on the web site (http://www.thinkmeta.de).

"fpFLAC" can be downloaded as source code or in compiled form. It is included as sample application in the "Fiber Pool" development kit, which can be downloaded from the web site.

About ThinkMeta
Founded in 2009, ThinkMeta Software UG (haftungsbeschränkt) is an emerging company based in Renningen, Germany. Her focus is the research in "asynchronous programming", a programming paradigm propagated by ThinkMeta for the development of scalable applications. ThinkMeta's multicore framework "Fiber Pool" facilitates asynchronous programming with C++. It is available for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista.