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Doesn't appear to mention Lamport Timestamps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps) (Yes, THAT Lamp
by ajarmst 12y ago
Doesn't appear to mention Lamport Timestamps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps) (Yes, THAT Lamport), which are one of the most elegant mechanisms to deal with the some of the discussed problems.
- macintux 12y ago> Another such area of work is logical time, manifest as vector clocks, version vectors, and other ways of abstracting over the ordering of events. Vector clocks and version vectors are variations on the Lamport clock concept (and that quote is from a paragraph that mentions Paxos, another Lamport invention, cited in the bibliography).