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diff --git a/docs/api.md b/docs/api.md index a4b76b0..2665306 100644 --- a/docs/api.md +++ b/docs/api.md @@ -292,7 +292,10 @@ vouched for as the first time; and a node checks one it receives once it holds t change (a signature costs about 30 µs to check, and one vouches for its node's changes before it). A message carrying no changes carries no signatures; one carrying more than 256 signed changes (a whole document pulled) carries each writer's latest among -them instead, and a delta each writer's latest with changes in it. A writer is a node's +them instead. Its signatures count towards a message's size, past which its changes are +offered as a delta (fetched in chunks, from any node holding them); a delta's +signatures, each writer's latest with changes in it, are a blob of their own, fetched +from the node that offered it before the changes. A writer is a node's run: each start, rejoin or drop makes a fresh one. A node signs the latest change of each of its runs that nothing vouches for as it starts, before anything leaves, and whenever its document is swapped (a drop, a switch, a rejoin): changes it kept |