UPID

last updated: Jul 14, 2024

https://github.com/carderne/upid

Very similar to typeid, UPID is a UUID spec that embeds four prefix characters inside a 128-bit UUID string, instead of prefixing a full UUID like typeid does.

The cost is fewer bits for the time (48 -> 40 bits) and randomness (80 -> 64)

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