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A comment on Optimistic Locking in B-Trees. Parent comment

Re:Optimistic Locking in B-Trees by pfent on Friday March 07, 2025 @01:25PM (#43292700)
When incrementing the version with 4 GHz, it takes over 100 years non-stop for a 64bit wraparound.
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Re:Optimistic Locking in B-Trees by xxs on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:52PM (#43293792)
likely even more as it has to be an atomic operation which causes extra latency and coherency traffic
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