>don't need to watch an iCarly fan fiction on youtube

this is unnecessary.

This is not a problem which needed to be fixed, it's an improvement in efficiency - though a costly one. We are talking about a company which do make their own custom microchips so you could very well be right, but it may also be that they weren't even aware this was possible.

Citadel executes trades in about 10 microseconds, so a 500 nanosecond reduced execution time is a 5% improvement. For a company which executes trades for hundreds of billions a day, this translates to real money.

Your sarcasm indicates that you have no clue as to how important such an improvement can be for some actors. Some do though; the repo has almost 100 forks and 2K stars after just two days.