>
> Granted, 63 or 127 bits go a *very* *long* way, but still, it seems
> shortsighted since in the coming centuries, it seems possible
> that we may have
> software running for hundreds of years at a time.
>
Well, if you are generating 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 transactions per
second, you still have around 1,000,000,000,000 years before you run out of
127 bit unique IDs. If you begin now you might just make it before the Big
Crunch at the end of the universe...
- Avi
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