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Re: A couple simple questions (hopefully)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tue May 30 14:49:04 2000 )

From: Steve Mosher <goat@isn.net>
To: coldstuff@cold.org
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:37:01 -0300
In-Reply-To: <20000530115801.A25017@ice.roguetrader.com>
Reply-To: coldstuff@cold.org

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Brandon Gillespie wrote:
> Because objects are inherently persistent in ColdC, they also have a
> unique identifier.  This means you can theoretically run out of
> 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.