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vbezhenar • yesterday at 11:06 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

So you can't generate more than 1000 UUIDs per second without skewing timestamp portion? That's not a lot. Bulk imports often require a lot more inserts.


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ben-schaaf • today at 7:03 AM

Reading that code there's a 48-bit counter used for each millisecond, so ~281 quadrillion UUIDs per second.