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This is a nice daemon, however I wouldn't be too concerned either way. The plist in this thread runs a single copy of bash - the performance impact on a modern (or even 15-year old) machine would be so minimal as to be unnoticed. On my system a cursory look suggested it took around 520Kb RAM and virtually no CPU.The various sorts of "antipop" are just tricking the OS so it keeps the audio system active. It was meant for real macs (mainly laptops) to stop the popping sound when they go to sleep.
You can also use it — as I do — to prevent ground loops if your computer is plugged into an audio amplifier.
The original antipop (https://www.tomsick.net/projects/antipop.html) support was stopped in 2009 as you can read.
I've been using it for years, with total satisfaction, but checking the link above, I've found there's a variant, lighter on the system.
I put the direct link here, in case tomsick.net would disappear someday: https://github.com/mttrb/antipopd
To our friends moderators: I've put this link in the 2 first treads I've found talking about antipop. I have no interest of any kind in that free software, except to share the silence it gives.
The main benefit this brings is having an option not to run when on battery power. You could modify the original script to do this as such:
while true; do if [ "$(pmset -g ac | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}')" != No ]; then say ' '; fi; sleep 25; done
TL;DR unless you're dead keen, using a laptop or need to absolutely max out resources I wouldn't take the effort to switch to this daemon if it's working fine for you already.