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Re:Making CRDTs 98% More Efficient by vlovich123 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:09AM (#37925659)
That’s an interesting approach, but what’s the use case you’re thinking of? There’s no correlation of UUIDs across nodes like there is with something like UUIDv7 or ULIDs.

I guess you’ll still have batches of locality depending on the uptime of the server which might be useful and generation would of course be significantly faster although I doubt many applications are really bottlenecks by UUID generation speed.

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Re:Making CRDTs 98% More Efficient by insanitybit on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @09:26AM (#37928330)
Within a node it would improve compression, so in theory your overall system would benefit. This diminishes as you increase the number of nodes. TBH if you have a very small number of nodes I think just having a synchronized counter is fine. You can make extremely fast counters if you allow for gaps.
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