On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:

> But it's not clear that an Atom created on one local machine, then
> processed a bit, then discarded, ever needs to get assigned a UUID.
> They could get assigned only when saving to a backing store or sending
> across a network, right?
>

Yes, exactly. On a local machine, UUID's are never needed; removing them is
a performance optimization.  For storage or network communications -- its
up to the layer that implements the storage or communications: if it wants
to use UUID's as some kind of short-cut, it can, or it can use something
else.

--linas


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> -- ben
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> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Matt Chapman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Linas Vepstas <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> My long-term goal is to create such a "private table" in the database
> >> backends, and remove UUID's in general.
> >
> >
> > Aren't UUID's (or something equivalent) necessary for a distributed
> > atomspace? I suspect you don't want to have to worry about synchronizing
> > this int table across machines...
> >
> > All the Best,
> >
> > Matt
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