I agree.
I guess it was a slow news day.
I'm reminded of a quote from (the movie) "Contact" (with Jodi Foster): "Occam's razor. You ever heard of it?"
Isn't the simple (albeit not obvious to some) answer: 64bit (DB - database) keys are more efficient than (32bit) on a 64bit Server - which is what datacenters are moving towards (or have been moving towards).
And the decision was an Ops/Engineeing one (rather than Product Management or Business) to optimize on speed rather than memory or storage (obviously 64bit keys take twice as much memory and storage as 32bit keys).
I apologize to anybody (that cares) for continueing to draw attention to "does anyone care?" articles... ah, maybe this was a Facebook Marketing ploy??? LOL
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I agree. I guess it was a slow news day. I'm reminded of a quote from (the movie) "Contact" (with Jodi Foster): "Occam's razor. You ever heard of it?" Isn't the simple (albeit not obvious to some) answer: 64bit (DB - database) keys are more efficient than (32bit) on a 64bit Server - which is what datacenters are moving towards (or have been moving towards). And the decision was an Ops/Engineeing one (rather than Product Management or Business) to optimize on speed rather than memory or storage (obviously 64bit keys take twice as much memory and storage as 32bit keys). I apologize to anybody (that cares) for continueing to draw attention to "does anyone care?" articles ... ah, maybe this was a Facebook Marketing ploy??? LOL