我想证明一个GUID在一个简单的测试程序中不是唯一的。 我原以为下面的代码会运行几个小时，但它不起作用。我该怎么做呢?
BigInteger begin = new BigInteger((long)0);
BigInteger end = new BigInteger("340282366920938463463374607431768211456",10); //2^128
for(begin; begin<end; begin++)
Console.WriteLine(System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString());
我用的是c#。
当前回答
Well if the running time of 83 billion years does not scare you, think that you will also need to store the generated GUIDs somewhere to check if you have a duplicate; storing 2^128 16-byte numbers would only require you to allocate 4951760157141521099596496896 terabytes of RAM upfront, so imagining you have a computer which could fit all that and that you somehow find a place to buy terabyte DIMMs at 10 grams each, combined they will weigh more than 8 Earth masses, so you can seriously shift it off the current orbit, before you even press "Run". Think twice!
其他回答
就我个人而言，我认为“大爆炸”是由两个guid相撞引起的。
[Update:] As the comments below point out, newer MS GUIDs are V4 and do not use the MAC address as part of the GUID generation (I haven't seen any indication of a V5 implementation from MS though, so if anyone has a link confirming that let me know). WIth V4 though, time is still a factor though, and the odds against duplication of GUIDs remains so small as to be irrelevant for any practical usage. You certainly would not be likely to ever generate a duplicate GUID from just a single system test such as the OP was trying to do.
大多数答案都忽略了微软GUID实现的一个关键点。GUID的第一部分基于时间戳，另一部分基于网卡的MAC地址(如果没有安装网卡，则为随机数)。
如果我理解正确，这意味着复制GUID的唯一可靠方法是在多台机器上同时运行GUID生成，其中MAC地址是相同的，并且两个系统上的时钟在生成发生时处于相同的确切时间(时间戳是基于毫秒的，如果我理解正确的话)....即使如此，数字中还有很多其他的位是随机的，所以几率仍然很小。
对于所有实际目的，guid都是惟一的。
在“旧的新事物”博客上有一个关于MS GUID的很好的描述
guid是124位，因为4位保存版本号。
如果生成的UUID的数量遵循摩尔定律，那么在可预见的未来永远用不完GUID的印象是错误的。
对于2^128个uuid，只需要18个月* Log2(2^128) ~= 192年，我们就会用完所有uuid。
而且我相信(虽然没有任何统计证据)，自从UUID被大规模采用以来，在过去的几年里，我们生成UUID的速度比摩尔定律所规定的要快得多。换句话说，我们可能只有不到192年的时间来处理UUID危机，这比宇宙末日要快得多。
但由于我们肯定不会在2012年底之前将它们耗尽，我们将把这个问题留给其他物种来担心。
Well if the running time of 83 billion years does not scare you, think that you will also need to store the generated GUIDs somewhere to check if you have a duplicate; storing 2^128 16-byte numbers would only require you to allocate 4951760157141521099596496896 terabytes of RAM upfront, so imagining you have a computer which could fit all that and that you somehow find a place to buy terabyte DIMMs at 10 grams each, combined they will weigh more than 8 Earth masses, so you can seriously shift it off the current orbit, before you even press "Run". Think twice!
