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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:27:30 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 19:03, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 18:37, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten wrote:
>> >
>> >> You missed the other line (probably gmail's fault):
>> >>
>> >> Most likely, all that will happen is identification entropy won't
>> >> increase nearly so rapidly and there might be other benefits
>> >> such as shortlog speed improvements.
>> >
>> > The shortlog speed improvement is certainly not going to compensate for
>> > all the added human time needed to process the extra piece of
>> > information.
>>
>> What added human time?
>
> The time that humans will have to spend on this UUID
> setup/fixing/whatnot.

Compatibility concerns aside, there is virtually no overhead. Indeed,
there would be less overhead than there is now in terms of fixing.