Logical Clocks Are Easy (2016)

by bladecatcheron 10/26/2018, 8:33 AMwith 6 comments

by perl4everon 10/27/2018, 6:39 PM

"Time, however, totally orders all events, even those unrelated"

Really? Given how fast computers are, and the global nature of the Internet, I thought it is easily possible for them to be separated by more distance than light can travel in a relevant amount of time.

"there is no unique ordering of spacelike events--events that happen in order 1 > 2 > 3 in frame A may happen in order 2 > 1 > 3 in frame B. In fact, for any two spacelike separated events, it is possible to find a reference frame where you can reverse the order in which they happen."

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/75763/can-specia...

by jamesblondeon 10/27/2018, 7:24 PM

We are from a distributed systems research group.

We called our company Logical Clocks - couldn't believe i could get the .com domain name only 2 years ago....