Ted, what's the README you're talking about?

AFAIK David's code is not released, is it?


On 12/2/10 4:59 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
> Shame on me for not reading more carefully and stating the obvious.
>
> In my (slight) defense, the README talks about making sure that the the
> counter is incremented by exactly 1.  I took that statement and ran with it.
>  A slight elaboration there might have helped me realize that your
> implementation was considerably more sophisticated.
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:55 AM, David Rosenstrauch <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On 12/02/2010 10:47 AM, Ted Dunning wrote:
>>
>>> I would recommend that you increment the counter by 100 or 1000 and then
>>> increment a local counter over the implied range.  This will drive the
>>> amortized ZK overhead down to tens of microseconds which should be good
>>> for
>>> almost any application. Your final ids will still be almost entirely
>>> contiguous.  You could implement a fancier counter in ZK that remembers
>>> returned chunks for re-use to get perfect contiguity if you really wanted
>>> that.
>>>
>> This is what our library does.  You request chunks of, say, 1000 ID's, and
>> then push back any remaining unused ID's in the chunk you took.
>>
>> DR
>>


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