In other words, people complaining about the unoptimized miner 19 and 20 days after the launch, when approximately 2.7% of the base supply had been mined, and one day before NoodleDoodle released his optimizations (which were his own work and his to do with as he saw fit) on github.

How is this news?

EDIT: Actually first quote above was after NoodleDoodle had already released the code on github.