> On 29 Mar, 2017, at 21:15, vignesh kannan <vignesh2496@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Can you please explain what a hard time cutoff is? I haven't come across the term before.

I mean that there’s a sharp transition from one calculation to another at some multiple of the interval in the older implementations.  It always felt unnatural to me.

By contrast, Cobalt’s behaviour on re-entering dropping state depends smoothly on the time spent in the non-dropping state.

 - Jonathan Morton