He mentions Visual Studio often in the page, and the code is several years old. Perhaps your alternative doesn't optimise well across the compilers he used, bac

He mentions Visual Studio often in the page, and the code is several years old. Perhaps your alternative doesn't optimise well across the compilers he used, back several years ago when the author was developing the code. In any case, there are unknowns here. Perhaps you should be less hasty in declaring people's work 'pointless' and telling others what they 'should' have done?