Re: [boost] Ann: guid library

From: Lassi A. Tuura (lassi.tuura_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-14 06:15:24

Hi,

> Wouldn't adding the process (or thread) ID to the mix help in this  
> case?

Can you expand on what you mean by "mix"?

What I was trying to say is that GUIDs with MAC address and system  
time have 14 bit field "clock sequence" field.  The system clock  
resolution can be as much as ten milliseconds, during which the  
generator needs to be able to produce 16384 unique values.  If the  
apps can require many GUIDs very rapidly or have weird herding  
effects as ours did, that just translates to near-impossible problem  
to solve, no matter what the sequence generator uses as source.  (A  
system wide sequence generator could guarantee uniqueness by waiting  
to next clock tick on overflow.  If you are writing your own code,  
you probably don't have one of those.)

In our case the end result was something like a clash a month, and at  
worst several conflicts per week.

Lassi