I am not encoding APE files anymore, so some decoding benchmarks from my existing files, all of them are CDDA images. All decoding done on RAM, i3-12100, win10 x64 and x64 executable.
Fast:
--- Monkey's Audio Console Front End (v 8.19) (c) Matthew T. Ashland ---
Progress: 100.0% (0.0 seconds remaining, 10.4 seconds total)
--- Monkey's Audio Console Front End (v 9.10) (c) Matthew T. Ashland ---
Progress: 100.0% (0.0 seconds remaining, 10.5 seconds total)
Normal:
--- Monkey's Audio Console Front End (v 8.19) (c) Matthew T. Ashland ---
Progress: 100.0% (0.0 seconds remaining, 15.8 seconds total)
--- Monkey's Audio Console Front End (v 9.10) (c) Matthew T. Ashland ---
Progress: 100.0% (0.0 seconds remaining, 15.5 seconds total)
High:
--- Monkey's Audio Console Front End (v 8.19) (c) Matthew T. Ashland ---
Progress: 100.0% (0.0 seconds remaining, 18.0 seconds total)
--- Monkey's Audio Console Front End (v 9.10) (c) Matthew T. Ashland ---
Progress: 100.0% (0.0 seconds remaining, 17.2 seconds total)
Extra high:
--- Monkey's Audio Console Front End (v 8.19) (c) Matthew T. Ashland ---
Progress: 100.0% (0.0 seconds remaining, 18.3 seconds total)
--- Monkey's Audio Console Front End (v 9.10) (c) Matthew T. Ashland ---
Progress: 100.0% (0.0 seconds remaining, 17.4 seconds total)