Things I learned about creating a C API for my Rust crate by making every mistake about creating a C API

• spec

  62 8,648 0.0

  The canonical spec for ulid

  

A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a way for creating unique identifiers that are still sortable: ULIDs. ULIDs are very similar to UUIDs are typically used: as random identifiers [footnote: you should ensure that you're using UUIDv4 if you're using them this way, otherwise your IDs are not random].

• ulid-lite

  3 19 4.1 Rust

  Generate unique, yet sortable identifiers

Naturally, I thought that I should try and implement them. And I did. In fact, some benchmarking indicates that I may have created the fastest Rust implementation: it takes my computer roughly 28 nanoseconds to generate an identifier. That's 35,000 ULIDs per millisecond.

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