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mratsim on June 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust concurrency: the archetype of a message-passi...

Everyone dealing with actors, multithreading, distributed systems should read about Vector Clocks:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clock

- Detecting Causal Relationships in Distributed Computations:In Search of the Holy Grail, Schwarz et al - http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/publ/papers/holygrail.pdf

hugey010 on June 23, 2020 [–]

Now that's some CS I wasn't even aware of! Although, I'm confused why those process clocking topics are considered specific to distributed systems and not computation in general.

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