Gregory's Server
@dan I'm breathing into a paper bag right now to calm down.
Jokes aside though, in wanting to be fair to these people, you could theorise about how the difference in performance between memcpy and allocator implementations (new vs malloc) could introduce jitter during playback...
And closing a file explicitly might be preventing that operation from happening automatically at a later time (or causing some other side effect) and thus also preventing jitter...
I know it's all extremely unlikely on 2013 hardware, but, you know, it's not quite on the level of thinking that your CAT6 cable or SSD can affect audio quality, where you know with absolute certainty that the data rate is so high that no matter how crap the model you have is, it won't ever be so slow as to cause a starved audio buffer...
Jokes aside though, in wanting to be fair to these people, you could theorise about how the difference in performance between memcpy and allocator implementations (new vs malloc) could introduce jitter during playback...
And closing a file explicitly might be preventing that operation from happening automatically at a later time (or causing some other side effect) and thus also preventing jitter...
I know it's all extremely unlikely on 2013 hardware, but, you know, it's not quite on the level of thinking that your CAT6 cable or SSD can affect audio quality, where you know with absolute certainty that the data rate is so high that no matter how crap the model you have is, it won't ever be so slow as to cause a starved audio buffer...