I wish I had joined this discussion earlier. I did quite a bit of thinking about this when I tried to make my own full throughput 16-16 balancer. I probably won't be able to explain my thinking very well, but I'll give it a shot.

My conclusions were based on the definition of a full throughput N:N ...

I put the splitters after the branch, not before. So they can fill the empty space caused by the branch.

All things considered, if you pull off from the bus at two points, there is no practical difference between putting the row of splitters directly after the first split, or directly before the ...

Since 0.16.17 was released, adding input/output priority to the splitter, I have been using them on my main bus to allow maximum throughput. The theory is to always prioritize to the right (since I am splitting off to the right), and this will allow a full belt to exit the bus if require, and the ...