[Zope-dev] Re: BTreeFolder

[Shane Hathaway]

Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 
> Shane Hathaway wrote:
> >
> >
> > However, purely random IDs would cause all the buckets to be loaded in
> > memory all the time, so Jim's third idea was to have each client
> > increment sequentially from a random ID and move to a new random ID if
> > conflicts ever occur.
> 
> Can't one just assign some unique id to each ZEO client and somehow use
> _that_  for making up ids ?
> 
> It would have the added benefit of knowing which client made up which
> id.

I suppose, but I don't see much value in that for most ZEO setups, since
a browser is not bound to a specific client.

Shane