Module notedealer::snowflake

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Snowflake ID generation logic.

Statics

MACHINE_ID 🔒
SEQUENCE_NUMBER 🔒

Functions

duration_since_epoch 🔒
generate_snowflake
Generates a “Snowflake ID”. Since there are already variations, this doesn’t bother being exactly the same as Twitter’s or Mastodon’s, but the idea is the same. 48 bits for time, 8 bits rerolled for each process, 8 bits from a sequence number.