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So the root element single point of congestion for all writes, right?

• hinkley 1y ago
  With a filesystem based trees that’s often sufficient to help reduce the amount of write contention. Because you’re not serializing the whole goddamned thing back to disk, just the parts that changed, which are logarithmic to the size of the edit history. And git uses GC to deal with writes that get to the end and then fail due to concurrent access collisions. For in-memory problems, there are B-trees, which are an older solution to many problems than most of HN’s userbase, including myself. Then you still have the sharding which I did in fact point out would be part of a better hybrid solution.