This is interesting.  Is it faster than uuid for generation and/or
comparing for equality?

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Max Countryman <m...@me.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’m happy to announce a new release of Flake, the decentralized, k-ordered
> unique ID generator.
>
> Flake 0.4.0 includes a number of important breaking changes, but by far
> the most important is dropping `generate` in favor of `generate!` which now
> returns a ByteBuffer. Previously `generate` returned a BigInteger, however
> this arbitrarily limits how an application can handle IDs and goes against
> the spirit of the Erlang implementation. In order to maintain backwards
> compatibility, a helper `flake->bigint` was added to the core namespace.
> Applications which already consume flakes should update their calls to
> `generate` so they are `generate!` and wrap them with `flake->bigint` if
> BigIntegers are desirable or already used.
>
> Github: https://github.com/maxcountryman/flake
> Changes: https://github.com/maxcountryman/flake/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Max
>
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