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[Ed Leafe <ed.leafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Ed Leafe <ed.leafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:
>> 
>>> A random 32-bit integer would be fine as
>>> long as the generating algorithm produced acceptable collision rates.
>> 
>>        What is an "acceptable" collision rate?
> 
> YMMV? :)


	I guess I need to revisit Soren's objections to UUIDs. They just seem like the right thing to use for this.


-- Ed Leafe