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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by jcranmer on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:53PM (#35140601)
If I understand you correctly, you're asserting that it's possible for transport-layer protocols to cause hiccups in the output because bits might get flipped.

Except all of the transport-layer protocols before the DAC are working in digital logic and have checksums applied to them. A bit flip is going to be detected and corrected or the packet will be dropped and resent. So the transport isn't going to have any impact on the bits whatsoever (barring effects like a packet arriving too late to emit the sound on time).

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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by worksonmine on Monday March 13, 2023 @03:10PM (#35140866)
Transport was probably a bad wording but sure. Lost packets if you will.

My point is bits moving from point to point. Passing through my buggy function handling 64 bit numbers as 16 bits could be another example, and using transport in that sense is probably wrong and I'll have to discuss TCP and everything related.

My only point is that there are a million different ways data can change from point A to B, some expected (.1+.2 example) others unexpected. The more I explain the more I'm being downvoted and I don't really understand why it's so controversial.

Starting to believe it's a HN thing I'm unaware of, if someone tries to explain a misunderstanding troll him and misunderstand as much as possible.

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