Yeah I’m a programmer like most of us here and I’ve seen timers abused quite a lot. They sometimes are appropriate, but more often, they are good examples of an

Yeah I’m a programmer like most of us here and I’ve seen timers abused quite a lot. They sometimes are appropriate, but more often, they are good examples of an antipattern. The wording “it would seem” should have tipped you off that no assumptions are being made, but I guess it didn’t work. And even if we were to make a comparison as you suggest and derive some ratio, that’s not super useful without comparing it to the ratio for some alternative approach that does not use timers.