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| whats the point of uuids instead of straight counting upwards ids |
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| Waru:
so presumably you would use a uuid to know who a certain account is, etc without name changes or anything. Minecraft (which uses uuids) are able to see the uuid so it's nothing like an auth key. what are the benefits of a uuid vs a normal incremental id like blockland has? do the uuids have inherent properties? I'm not well versed in this so any explanation would help |
| Super Suit 12:
I have no loving clue and now I'm curious |
| Spartan923:
Only thing i can think of would be security / privacy |
| Waru:
--- Quote from: Spartan923 on August 29, 2017, 06:08:32 PM ---Only thing i can think of would be security / privacy --- End quote --- but a minecraft server knows your uuid, same as a blockland server knows your blockland id. Also they're (mostly) completely randomly generated now, but a random generation that doesnt repeat is still just as quantitative as 1, 2, 3, etc. |
| Foxscotch:
they are useful when you need something to be, you know, universally unique. there is a difference between universally unique, and unique to your application they also make sharding simpler neither of these seem likely to be a real concern for minecraft, at least at the time they'd have made that decision, so notch probably chose to do it that way for no particular reason |
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