[sldev] Cache speed experiment & results...

[Kent Quirk (Q Linden)]

On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Celierra Darling wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Dale Mahalko <dmahalko at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> My only concern is that the GUID distribution is may be just merely
>> pseudo-random.  ...
>
> Why not hash the (entire) GUID and use that instead?

The point of a GUID is that it's already random. Or more correctly,  
"merely" pseudo-random. Not that most computers have a handy source of  
true randomness anyway.

Our GUID generation code is found in lluuid.h/.cpp. There are comments  
in there that indicate that we've thought about distribution and the  
quality of our randomness before.

Which makes sense, given that we have to store *all* of those assets  
ourselves. If they had a tendency to sort themselves into buckets,  
we'd have a lot more trouble managing them than any external caching  
scheme will. I don't think this is something to bother with.

	Q