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> there are lww registers and multi-value registers

Use a single value register then in place where I said “register”.

> partition means that different subsets of nodes in a single system have different views on reality

Partition means that nodes of a (single) network are (temporarily) not connected.

In the example discussed here, blue and green were in different partitions thus had “different view” to the state. Once synchronized, their view on the state is consistent and both observe both values, blue being the latest state.

> is no longer represented in the history of v when the partition heals

Please review the above discussion again and the original article. You keep saying this but it’s shown in both that it’s is not true.



"last writer wins" does not preserve state from losing (earlier) writers/writes

after synchronization, all nodes share a consistent view of state (yes) but that state has no history, it only contains the net final value (blue) as the singular and true state

this is not complicated, i think you're out of your element




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