"Speeding up" would only happen when you turn nudging on, it wouldn't continuously keep getting faster. But the algorithm described by the author has a bigger

"Speeding up" would only happen when you turn nudging on, it wouldn't continuously keep getting faster. But the algorithm described by the author has a bigger problem: It wouldn't actually sync the fireflies! If EVERYONE nudged their clocks forward, then an out-of-sync firefly would be nudged the same as an in-sync firefly, and synchronization wouldn't increase over time! Your rule avoids this problem: > If you see a neighbour nearby flash, when you are not flashing, nudge your clock forward by a bit. If you look in "show clocks" mode, it looks like this is exactly what is implemented.