but if you can trust yourself to generate them, consecutive
integers provide minimal, order-preserving, perfect hashing, too!
Hmm this sounds pretty sensible to me.
Jeff
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Craig Loomis writes:
Globally unique IDs, hashed IDs, etc., are very appealing from
various CS-y and techie points of view, but are simply not memorable
to humans or knowable by dumb external programs. I think as much, or
more, effort should be put into delivering a