Run results for: crypto.randomUUID() vs crypto.getRandomValues()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 138

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

random

632/s

uuid

610/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ random	632 Ops/sec
uuid	610 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

iterations = 1000

Tests:

uuid
const arr = []; for (let i = 0; i < iterations; i++) { arr.push(crypto.randomUUID()); }
random
const arr = []; for (let i = 0; i < iterations; i++) { arr.push(crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(16))); }