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> > Even so, it is probably better to store an absolute tick value regardless
> > so that you don't have to perform the subtraction.
> 
> A substraction is *dirt cheap* to do.  Finding the element on the list
> is much more expensive than the subtraction.

Ignore this, I was confused.  Of course this is a much better way of
doing things than having to subtract every callout during softclock.


Nate