Thanks for the explanation Geoff! 

On 5/19/05, Geoff Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Emanuel Costa wrote:
> > Ok. I can see the benefits to have the unique id and I knew the
> > definition about it. But, one  thing I always wondered was about
> > performance. Does anyone tried to use simple numeric indexes and
> > compare to the UUID that Farcry have? Specially in a have load site
> > with a large amount of content....
> 
> The performance difference between numeric and UUID indices is
> negligible compared to other issues.  Any complex dynamically built CMS
> has performance issues -- you need to apply caching strategically.
> 
> However, any suggestions for performance increases are always gratefully
> recieved -- please lodge them here http://bugs.farcrycms.org/
> 
> There are lots of reasons for UUIDs.  Not least they work the same
> across all supported databases, you can have mixed object type
> references in the same array property, you can archive content centrally
>   and so on.
> 
> -- geoff
> http://www.daemon.com.au/
> 
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