On Tue, 20 May 2025 11:58:30 GMT, kieran-farrell <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> With the recent approval of UUIDv7 
>> (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9562/), this PR aims to add a new 
>> static method UUID.timestampUUID() which constructs and returns a UUID in 
>> support of the new time generated UUID version. 
>> 
>> The specification requires embedding the current timestamp in milliseconds 
>> into the first bits 0–47. The version number in bits 48–51, bits 52–63 are 
>> available for sub-millisecond precision or for pseudorandom data. The 
>> variant is set in bits 64–65. The remaining bits 66–127 are free to use for 
>> more pseudorandom data or to employ a counter based approach for increased 
>> time percision 
>> (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html#name-uuid-version-7).
>> 
>> The choice of implementation comes down to balancing the sensitivity level 
>> of being able to distingush UUIDs created below <1ms apart with performance. 
>> A test simulating a high-concurrency environment with 4 threads generating 
>> 10000 UUIDv7 values in parallel to measure the collision rate of each 
>> implementation (the amount of times the time based portion of the UUID was 
>> not unique and entries could not distinguished by time) yeilded the 
>> following results for each implemtation:
>> 
>> 
>> - random-byte-only - 99.8%
>> - higher-precision - 3.5%
>> - counter-based - 0%
>> 
>> 
>> Performance tests show a decrease in performance as expected with the 
>> counter based implementation due to the introduction of synchronization:
>> 
>> - random-byte-only   143.487 ± 10.932  ns/op
>> - higher-precision      149.651 ±  8.438 ns/op
>> - counter-based         245.036 ±  2.943  ns/op
>> 
>> The best balance here might be to employ a higher-precision implementation 
>> as the large increase in time sensitivity comes at a very slight performance 
>> cost.
>
> kieran-farrell has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   update RFC

src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/UUID.java line 213:

> 211:         int nsBits = (int) ((nsTime % 1_000_000) / 1_000_000.0 * 4096);
> 212: 
> 213:         // Set version and increased percision time bits

Suggestion:

        // Set version and increased precision time bits

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25303#discussion_r2097785581

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