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Well yes because you're describing a system where there are really low stakes and crash recovery is always possible because you can just throw away all your local state.

The flip side would be like a database failing to parse some part of its WAL log due to disk corruption and just said, "eh just delete those sections and move on."



Crash the tab and allow all the others to carry on!

The problem here is that one individual document failed to parse.


The other “tabs” here are other airplanes in flight, depending on being able to land before they run out of fuel. You don’t just ignore one and move on.




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