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<HR><H2>Re: A couple simple questions (hopefully)</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tue May 30 14:49:04 2000
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From: Steve Mosher &lt;goat@isn.net&gt;
To: coldstuff@cold.org
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:37:01 -0300
In-Reply-To: &lt;20000530115801.A25017@ice.roguetrader.com&gt;
Reply-To: coldstuff@cold.org

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Brandon Gillespie wrote:
&gt; Because objects are inherently persistent in ColdC, they also have a
&gt; unique identifier.  This means you can theoretically run out of
&gt; identifiers since it is a signed 32bit number.

	Of course, if you allocated one id every second, it would take you
more than 120 years to use them all.

-- 
	Heuristics are bug ridden by definition. If they didn't have bugs, then
they'd be algorithms.
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