LFFS: Simplicity vs Efficiency

I knew it was gonna happen, just knew it: I finally hit the first part of writing the book where I have to make a choice between something being easy to describe and understand up front vs long-term efficiency or flexibility. Let me explain. When you have a state-based CRDT, you have a merge operation. The details don&#x27;t really matter for this explanation, but basically if merge is…