Sorry if something was explained awkwardly or incorrectly, I'm trying to get a hang of writing posts like this, technical posts that are interesting and fun to

Sorry if something was explained awkwardly or incorrectly, I'm trying to get a hang of writing posts like this, technical posts that are interesting and fun to read. > If they were using unsigned arithmetic then they would've gotten the expected value. And we did, but we did not expect to get the input values we got, which are explained by your last paragraph: "time stamp counter drift across cores." This was the real problem, and something new we learned. > use clock_gettime+CLOCK_MONOTONIC I forgot to include this because I was focused on the solutions we ended up using, but after some research this is 100% correct! We were afraid that too many syscalls during the query execution can produce huge performance hits so we decided to look for a different solution. All in all, thanks for the comment!