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This assumes that you're compressing IDs in batches. I'm sure that's a common situation, but I'm not sure why it's assumed to be the _default_ situation, nor am

by kiitos 3y ago

This assumes that you're compressing IDs in batches. I'm sure that's a common situation, but I'm not sure why it's assumed to be the _default_ situation, nor am I sure why this is assumed to be the primary metric for IDs.

insanitybit 3y ago
> I'm sure that's a common situation It's the situation we're presented with in the blog post. It's not an uncommon situation given that UUIDs are used in databases and, for many databases, compression is done at a block level. > nor am I sure why this is assumed to be the primary metric for IDs. It isn't.