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Re:The Case of the Extra 40ms by pierrefermat1 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:36AM (#25427644)
Yes he addressed it but just said he was unwilling to do anything about it as it resulted in too much change/work

That does answer the issue of why it was implemented like that in the first place

Re:The Case of the Extra 40ms by golergka on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:29PM (#25433998)
Well, it's been my experience that you only find out the proper way to implement something after you do it one or a couple of times.