[erlang-questions] Generating readable unique IDs for use outside erlang

[Dave Challis]

On 10/02/11 14:47, Ale wrote:
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>> Any suggestions on this?
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> Why don't you generate UUID?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

I mostly wanted to stick to the standard library for speed, I assumed 
that calling the BIFs now() and node() would be much more efficient than 
running code to generate a uuid.

Memory-wise, a tuple containing {node(), now()} should use up much less 
space than a 128 bit uuid.

But good to know the code is out there, will come in handy someday I'm sure!

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Dave Challis
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