I’ve pushed a fix for the 8-bit .wav issue now.
Expect the CI build to take 15 minutes before it shows up as an update.
As for lowest playback latency, I don’t expect any difference in latency between the codecs.
Regarding playback performance, there may of course be a difference.
However, the key change in this release is that we got SIMD (sse) support on those platforms that support it (intel/amd/wasm), which further decreases the performance gap between uncompressed formats like wav and the compressed formats.
As usual, I say, make measurements yourself to find what fits your needs.