On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:26:40AM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > Yes, memory usage and ease of comparison. If we assume that a 128 > character string uses 8 bytes per character, that's 1k per UUID, versus > 16 bytes as a integer. Comparing 16 bytes is also going to be much > faster than a 1k strcmp.
Sorry. I meant if we assume 8 bits, not bytes, per character. This should read, "using 128 bytes versus 16 bytes." -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
