guid related

From: BigP <big_planet_2000_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 12:26:18 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0048F5F8.20020703122618@fatcity.com>

hi everybody ,
oracle provides guid function to generate unique ids . My question is should one use that guid for synthetic primary key .So you no longer need a sequence for generating unique values . Is it faster to do a search on number comapred to varchar2 if it is indexed . My just debating if i should use guid to for primary key .

-Bp

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