Like I stated in IRC, I am not part of the "dev team", I never was.
Pardon my error. NoodleDoodle was only unofficial part of the dev team at the time, but is now official, as verified here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg7098497#msg7098497Boolberry certainly didn't copy this un-cripple 'fix' or optimization as you like to call it.
This issue did not apply to BBR at all.
It seems logical that another actor (perhaps relating to XMR team if you're a fan of conspiracy theories, or conceivably someone previously involved in bytecoin, -- who naturally would be aware, OR an entirely independent user who has basic coding knowledge and few minutes to spare glancing over the code) had realised this and was operating at a significant advantage for some time.
As I explained, the code was unchanged from the original bytecoin public release, whenever that was (some time before MRO that's for sure), until then-friend-of-monero-and-now-monero-developer NoodleDoodle fixed it.