@@ -254,17 +254,18 @@ GLOBCNT / GCV
254254 2^48. Every folder and message object is assigned a **unique,
255255 non-reusable ** GC value (GCV). GCVs need not be assigned in any
256256 particular order, and no particular order should be inferred from GCVs.
257- In practice, a strictly monotonically increasing counter is used. This
258- is memory efficient and incurs lower fragmentation of the GCV space
259- than random GCV assignment.
257+ In practice, a strictly monotonically increasing counter is used.
260258
261259 Some components can perform a *range reservation * (e.g.
262260 ``ropGetLocalReplicaIds `` and the gromox-exmdb ``create_folder `` RPC),
263261 which can cause GCV values to apparently jump around: For example, in
264- Gromox, a created folder may receive GCV 0x10000 and as
262+ Gromox, a created folder may receive GCV 0x10000 and, because
265263 ``create_folder `` reserves 0x10001..0x1ffff for messages, the next
266264 folder gets GCV 0x20000. Once the first folder has exceeded its
267- reservation, it will make another, e.g. 0x30000..0x3ffff.
265+ reservation, it will make another, e.g. 0x30000..0x3ffff. The
266+ per-folder range reservations improve the locality of a folder's
267+ message IDs, which is conducive to IDSET compression and reducing
268+ network traffic a little bit.
268269
269270 In Gromox (2.17), the SQLite fields ``folder_id `` and ``message_id ``
270271 are GCVs rather than internal identifiers. (This may change at a later
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