[sldev] Cache speed experiment & results...

Soft soft at lindenlab.com
Wed Jun 4 12:13:20 PDT 2008


On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Argent <secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/4/08, Dale Mahalko <dmahalko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My only concern is that the GUID distribution is may be just merely
>> pseudo-random.  When this system was dreamed up at the start of SL,
>> did anyone actually do studies of the randomness of the distributions?
>
> I believe the SL UUIDs are actually generated randomly, often on the
> user's computer(!), with a variety of seeds.

The ones generated in the viewer are placeholders until the asset is
assigned a proper ID as part of the asset storage process. If any type
client-generated UUIDs persists, that should be filed as a security
issue in JIRA.


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