ruuid 0.2.1

A fast UUID generator for Python using Rust

ruuid

A fast UUID generator for Python built using Rust. Its a simple wrapper on top of Rust's UUID library.

How to use?

Installation:

pip install ruuid

Usage:

import ruuid
ruuid.uuid4()

'7a1ef475-904c-4d53-8985-528d09d57414'

Performance

Tests ran on an M1 macbook air with 8 GB of RAM and Python 3.9

from ruuid import uuid4

%timeit uuid4()
348 ns ± 0.707 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)

from uuid import uuid4

%timeit uuid4()
1.1 µs ± 2.91 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)