On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 12:05 +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> > Hmm This is a very good point. Tomas why do we need such a complex
> > structure? In fact I think we need just a simple counter that increments
> > with every change record created.
>
> Incremental counter is not good enough, since the puprpose of the ids is
> to differentiate between change records generated from separate
> instances of AW, and as such they need to be unique in time and space.
>
> As said elsewhere in this thread, the problem on win32 is to do with the
> 15ms granularity of the time API, but we cannot avoid it, because the
> collaborative stuff will require accurate timestamps. I understand there
> are ways in which a more accurate time can be got on win32, and if
> someone wants to investigate this to improve the performance of the
> UT_Win32UUID class, patches are always welcome.
>
Should we ifdef the code out of AbiWord-2.4 until such time as we have
the patch and/or actually use if for something useful?
Right now all it does is slow down load times on Windows by a factor of
2 :-(
Martin
> Tomas
>
>
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