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They roughly explained it. The counters were in a different state because of refactoring moving their updates around, so the Power Peg code had an incorrect view of reality.



There is a part of me that is strangely impressed that the code ran at all after 8 years of things changing around it.

I would have expected it to just segfault or error out in some way.




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