[Opensim-dev] [libsl-dev] UUID format: dashed here to stay?

[John Hurliman]

>
> As far as with/without dashes, I think going with the libsl format is
> best.  There is some rationale for the binary format that Tleiades put
> in for MySQL Assets (which leaked beyond that I think), as indexes on
> strings is many orders of magnitude slower than indexes on binary data.
> I'm not sure if we're really affected by this yet, but it is worth
> noting.
>
>
Is this true? I thought MySQL indexing on strings used a hashing algorithm
and was fairly efficient. I have no evidence for this though, was just
curious.

John
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