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(I've since skimmed Charron-Bost & Cori, and it shows that linearizability is not composable when there does not exist a total order of invocation and response events. This might be of use in relativistic scenarios with... accelerating spacecraft which still need to perform linearizable computation? I don't think it's particularly relevant to clocks down here on the geoid.)



I will update the docs to acknowledge that consistency guarantees may be compromised if the relative speed between servers in a cluster or clients is a nontrivial fraction of the speed of light.

Let me know if I don't have that right.




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