"It would be interesting to see some examples of speedups. I imagine most web apps calling mqlread..."
Freebase ids and guids are both unambiguous ways of referencing topics in Freebase.
If you're running queries which return a large number of values and you'd like to get a key to reference them by, asking for guid rather than the id can be significantly faster. In one application, I recieved more than a 2x speedup just by changing from ids to guids.
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But you shouldn't always replace an ID with a GUID
"guids and ids serve slightly different purposes: This should guide your usage more than performance. ..."
by willmoffat
Jun 25, 2008
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