[DGD] Re: Substituting LWOs for persistent objects

Par Winzell zell at skotos.net
Wed Dec 20 16:12:22 CET 2006


Steven Brooker wrote:
> Well, if you're using the globally unique IDs
> described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID, there
> shouldn't be any issues with MP as you don't so much
> have a piece of code that ensures they are unique so
> much as make it extremely unlikely that a new ID won't
> be unique.

They use a 16-byte identifier for each object. That would probably 
double the size of the avarage LWO, and the lookup-time would be 
non-trivial too.

Zell




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