This was discussed a bit in the original post [1] but I believe this comes down to the problem being sufficiently deep in the stack that there was an assumption

This was discussed a bit in the original post [1] but I believe this comes down to the problem being sufficiently deep in the stack that there was an assumption that this wasn't something that could be improved on. I'm sure the loading code looked good. It took someone who didn't know what that code looked like being curious about what was actually happening. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339