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by thebrokencube 4274 days ago
My suspicion is that the author was trying to distinguish total order of events vs. partial order of events. I feel like the reason vector clocks and the like were created was to deal with the fact that real-time is problematic in distributed system. There is some response from the author though on this question: http://www.bailis.org/blog/linearizability-versus-serializab...
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Looks like it (confusion between 'real-time' precedence and real-time guarantee), thanks.