I think so. Figure 7 is the only figure in the paper that shows latency, and it appears the epoch defines a latency floor. The system is aggressively optimized

I think so. Figure 7 is the only figure in the paper that shows latency, and it appears the epoch defines a latency floor. The system is aggressively optimized for throughput at the expense of commit latency, which is common for anything with group commit.