Logical Clocks Are Easy (2016)(queue.acm.org) |
Logical Clocks Are Easy (2016)(queue.acm.org) |
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...
We called our company Logical Clocks - couldn't believe i could get the .com domain name only 2 years ago....
However, CS does have to deal with this issue for the simple reason that we are already unable to synchronized our clocks to the extent necessary to avoid it (or, at least, it is not worth the engineering effort to do so).