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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by generalizations on Monday March 13, 2023 @12:44PM (#35138297)
> "Goto also sounds better than anything else I have tried." - the "Goto" in the quote means a goto in C used to replace a loop.

It strikes me as plausible that there might be differences in how the compiler treats goto vs whatever other loop. Pretty sure GCC can't optimize goto in the same ways.

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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by croes on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:00PM (#35138634)
I doubt that it matters if you decode audio files if you consider the amount data that needs to be processed and the speed of modern CPU.
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