Jonathan Blow's presentation

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/09/2017 04:12 AM, Ethan Watson wrote:
>
> In this case, the cost of
> decompressing audio on the CPU was either unfeasible in real time or
> increased load times dramatically during load times. Loading
> uncompressed audio off the disk was legitimately an optimisation in both
> cases.
>

I'm surprised it would've made that much of a difference, I'd grown 
accustomed to seeing audio decoding as computationally cheap on even 
low-end hardware.

But then again, I suppose the average level of a modern AAA game may 
involve a bit more audio data than the average MP3 song (not to mention 
a lot more audio streams playing simultaneously), and is already maxing 
the hardware as much as it can.