UUID#

A version 4 UUID generator.

Info

To use declarations from this page, include the <essence/uuid.hpp> header.

Note

Performance

Generates 100,000,000 UUID’s over 100 iterations in an average of 1.15 seconds, or roughly 887 million per second.

class uuid#

Container class for a version 4 UUID. Specialization available for std::hash and std::formatter.

uuid::uuid()#: Default constructor, generates immediately.

std::string string() const#: Get a string representation of the UUID.

operator std::string() const#: Implicit conversion operator to a std::string.

u64 low() const noexcept#: Get the underlying lower bits integer.

u64 high() const noexcept#: Get the underlying higher bits integer.

friend std::ostream &operator<<(std::ostream &os, const uuid &self)#: Stream overload for std::cout and the like.