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Can someone explain to me please why CRDTs are slow? This article suggests the future to me: https://joelgustafson.com/posts/2023-05-04/merklizing-the-key-valu

by EGreg 2y ago

Can someone explain to me please why CRDTs are slow? This article suggests the future to me: https://joelgustafson.com/posts/2023-05-04/merklizing-the-key-value-store-for-fun-and-profit https://joelgustafson.com/posts/2023-05-04/merklizing-the-ke... Take a look at this and compare it to Y.js or automerge: https://github.com/canvasxyz/okra-js https://github.com/canvasxyz/okra-js

josephg 2y ago
> Can someone explain to me please why CRDTs are slow? Author here. The main reason was that a lot of CRDT libraries were written by academics, who don't have the time, skill or interest in optimising them. Since writing this article a few years ago, all the major CRDT libraries have gotten orders of magnitude faster.