Simple node binding to the native libuuid implementation.
npm install node-libuuid
v1.0 Supports older versions of Node - pre version 4. v2.0 From this version newer versions of Node are supported.
Generate and return a time based UUID.
Returns the string form of the UUID.
Generate and return a secure random UUID (see uuid_generate_random(3))
Returns the string form of the UUID.
Run npm run-script bench
Currently it compares just against node-uuid.
node-libuuid#generate_random x 5,501,355 ops/sec ±1.32% (100 runs sampled)
node-uuid#v4 x 201,565 ops/sec ±2.84% (84 runs sampled)
Fastest is node-libuuid#generate_random
node-libuuid#v1 x 5,434,475 ops/sec ±1.85% (97 runs sampled)
node-uuid#v1 x 1,028,694 ops/sec ±1.91% (94 runs sampled)
Fastest is node-libuuid#v1
Please include operating system and version and libuuid install status.
Samuel Giles, GPLv2.