[chii]

> so nobody knows I've actually written something twice.

that's not really what a rewrite is. A rewrite is when something has already been in production, and the engineer re-do the same feature set, but refactored or rewritten in a different (possibly better, but not guaranteed) form. This rewrite takes up the time that would've been spent on something else.

If you were doing a "rewrite" during implementation, but still delivered on time, that's not a rewrite - that's just good engineering, doing exploratory coding! If you couldn't deliver on time because of the rewrite, then i guess you can call it a rewrite.