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Why use this over the new ordered UUID RFC?



UUID RFC use <timestamp, sequence, node id> layout which is different from the layout of snowid scheme which is <timestamp, node id, sequence>. Also UUID RFC timestamp can only use up-to 60 bits whereas snowid has the full 64 bits to spare. They server different use-cases.




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