ReadonlysidSession ID (or actor ID, site ID, process ID, etc.), a random identifier randomly assigned to each editing session.
Logical time (or sequence number, tick, etc.), a monotonically increasing integer, starting from 0. It does not produce gaps on local machine, but it can produce gaps when merged with other clocks.
Needs to be mutable in vector clock. Other than that, it should be treated as immutable.
Returns a new timestamp, which is the current clock value, and advances the clock by a number of cycles.
Number of cycles to advance the clock.
A new timestamp, which is the current clock value.
Represents a Logical Clock, which can be advanced by a number of cycles.