Would be trivial to write. I see no reason to not add it.

Also to anyone that's tested, how does Deluge scale with >1k torrents compared to 1.3.15 (which handled it poorly in my experience)

Thanks

In the end I added a patch to the Deluge 1.3.15 srcpkg for Void Linux and it's been merged into the void-packages tree.

https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/pull/14107

Please update the 1.3.15 release tarball with the patch for this bug (or give it a new version number). I'm running Void Linux and the "binary" package is from the source tarball which still has this bug. I asked Void Linux package maintainers if they could patch the binary package but the...