Re: [bailey-developers] SF.net SVN: bailey: [10] trunk/src

[Yonik S. <yo...@ap...>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Doug Cutting <cu...@ap...> wrote:
> Ning Li wrote:
>  > I changed range to be <long, long> for now. However, a document
>  > id is of type String, so we have to convert from String to long. It is
>  > hard if we want to maintain the order of the ids after we convert
>  > them to longs.
>
>  Right.  We need to decide on the bits per point on the ring.  Is 64
>  enough?

Wouldn't 32 bits be more than enough if it's just used for
partitioning (as opposed to using it for a unique id)?

-Yonik