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According to rather old Rockbox benchmarks, their implementation of ALAC requires 3-4x the clockspeed as FLAC: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CodecPerformanceCompa
by TD-Linux 10y ago
According to rather old Rockbox benchmarks, their implementation of ALAC requires 3-4x the clockspeed as FLAC: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CodecPerformanceComparison http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CodecPerformanceComparison
On a positive note, Apple later released a reference ALAC implementation under the Apache 2.0 license, which includes a patent grant, so the damage is mostly limited to consumer annoyance.