It should be. If every object had a 64 bit id, that was guaranteed to be unique, it would make so many things, so much easier and practical. That we're 25 years

It should be. If every object had a 64 bit id, that was guaranteed to be unique, it would make so many things, so much easier and practical. That we're 25 years into this and there is still ambiguity is not helpful. I'll bet they could do that and have nice entropy in the id's and hashtable performance.