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The linked article discusses the issues - the storage size when encoded as char, as 16byte values, as well as the impact on read/write locality.



Where does it discuss any of this? It compares base 10/16/32/64. There’s no mention at all of UUIDs or GUIDs.

(Or do you mean the original article, rather than the linked Crockford article?)


I mean the original.




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