It certainly does. The decoder thread CPU usage went down from an average of around 8.5% to 7.5% while playing back stereo 160kbps files on my Celeron 400.
Using the same "setup" (ATM + a 160 kbps file), I get 16.5% instead of 18.5% on a PPro 233.
Nice little optimizized release, thanks Rob.
Sure ! MAD is getting closer and closer to Nitrane (13.5%) ;-)
You're all going to like the next release then too...
Cheers, -rob