When we tell a client to merge a delta, that time to execute that merge is currently held against them. We send the delta then the response to the order/run, and start ticking their timer. If deltas merge slowly, we may be taking AI time against them for merging deltas, so they could tell us once they start back up.
Obviously this implied clients are sending server time to add back to them... which competitors could lie about and modify their client to claim it needs extra refunded time for a trivial delta merge. So this is a dangerous idea.
When we tell a client to merge a delta, that time to execute that merge is currently held against them. We send the delta then the response to the order/run, and start ticking their timer. If deltas merge slowly, we may be taking AI time against them for merging deltas, so they could tell us once they start back up.
Obviously this implied clients are sending server time to add back to them... which competitors could lie about and modify their client to claim it needs extra refunded time for a trivial delta merge. So this is a dangerous idea.