OOP_(re)

Wed, 28 May 1997 16:07:20 +0100

Frank Heckenbach 

>Would an ID of 8 bytes matter, i.e. are there any stream files where
>4 additional bytes per object would matter?



Why not make them 16 bytes? Sounds excessive maybe but that's how big a
Globally Unique IDentifier (GUID)(or more pretensiously a Universally
Unique IDentifier (UUID)) is...128bits....and there's a stanard for
generating them...and anyone with a windows machine has an implementation
of that(and the Mac and some UNIX boxes too). Upwardly comaptible with
Microsofts Component Object Model(COM) and I'm sure the likes of CORBA use
them too...

Dave




Frank Heckenbach (heckenb@mi.uni-erlangen.de)