> 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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