We did/are doing exactly the same thing with great results in the same areas! > The guy who wrote it thought it would be great to optimize the code in some way

We did/are doing exactly the same thing with great results in the same areas! > The guy who wrote it thought it would be great to optimize the code in some ways, but clearly overdid it. I feel that C++ is a language that entices decent developers to try and 'optimise'. We have the same issue in some of our lower level stuff including pointer arithmetic and other 'optimisations' that might have saved a couple of kb/mb of memory 20 years ago when the code was written but today only makes the code difficult to read and to modify.