This morning I was sent an anonymous email with a small block of code, simply marked 'latency reduction - do not run recursively'. I couldn't make head nor tail of the source code, but guessed it was supposed to go in the main synth loop. Well, I had no idea how it worked, but it did indeed reduce latency from about 10mS down to 9mS. Quite pleased with this I copied and pasted this again, and lost another mS of latency, so this was a linear reduction not a percentage one. Fantastic!
Now the painful bit. You see, I was so excited at the possibilities that I forgot the warning and turned it into a recursive function. When I ran it there was a brief flash, then nothing. Rather disappointed I decided to go back to the single call, only it wasn't there! There was also no sign of the email that I'd been sent either. I can only guess it was somehow actually winding back time until it erased it's own existence
