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Comment by vbezhenar

11 hours ago

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  3 hours ago

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

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