> Was it really all that bad? IIRC we replaced ARC with the current clock
> sweep due to patent concerns. (Maybe there were performance concerns as
> well, I don't remember).
Yeah, that was why the patent was frustrating. Performance was poor and
we were planning on replacing ARC in 8.2 anyway. Instead we had to
backport it.
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