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Author p-ganssle
Recipients ZackerySpytz, martin.panter, p-ganssle, pitrou, vstinner
Date 2019-04-15.15:09:11
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> In short, a+b can overflow, but a-b cannot?

I think it's more that by always checking the elapsed time against `now() - starttime`, you never need to represent the time at which the timeout should happen - which may be so far in the future that it causes a signed overflow.
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