alt Hacker NewsThat's such an odd way to use units. Why would you do 10^56 * 10^-9 seconds?
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magicalhippo • yesterday at 11:01 PM
Nanoseconds is a natural unit for processors operating around a GHz, as it's roughly the time of a clock cycle.
If a CPU takes 4 cycles to generate a UUID and the CPU runs at 4 GHz it churns out one every nanosecond.
This was my thought. Nanoseconds are an eternity. You want to be using Planck units for your worst-case analysis.