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That's an interesting link, it leads to a this 1991 Liskov paper, which might seem out-of-date, but apparently was very foundational to the whole concept. A little searching turned up this modern discussion of it:

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2022/11/practical-uses-of-...

Seems the bottom line is: "Since clock synchronization can fail occasionally, it is most desirable for algorithms to depend on synchronization for performance but not for correctness."



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