If anyone is curious how the encoding speed improved in the last half year or so, here's a little comparison between the different versions:
Code:
version | enc time | filesize
0.1.0-9348 | 152 | 183494
0.1.0-9559 | 119 | 182391
0.1.0-9658 | 109 | 182118
1.0.0-6 | 94 | 182856
1.0.0-82 | 86 | 182952
1.0.0-181 | 61 | 184139
1.0.0-245 | 59 | 189154
1.0.0-399 | 51 | 180221
1.0.0-541 | 22 | 184505
1.0.0-629 | 15 | 184616
I used cpu-used=1 in all cases, and tried to match the bitrates as close as possible in constant quality mode. The encoding speed is still very slow, but as you can see, it finally started to improve at a higher pace lately (although the last 2 builds used CONFIG_LOWBITDEPTH=1, so they are not really comparable). Aomenc is still way too slow for any productive purpose, but at least it's possible to test it now.