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Description
Hey, stumbled upon this when I was looking for some docs/middleware that handles POST-payloads for polka.
Bro.. ur code.. it's.. I'm sorry :man_facepalming: a waste of string-ops and entropy...
If you want to minimize LOC have a oneliner:
```js
export const hexoid = len => Array.from(new Array(len)).map(() => ((Math.random() * 0xff) | 0).toString(16)).join('')
```
If you want to target computational efficiency
Then don't throw away all the decimals it's, fresh entropy,
here's a variant that sweeps 8 letters (4bytes) per iteration,
it should be at least 8x faster.
```js
export function hexoid (n = 16) {
let s = ''
for (;n>0; n-=8) s += ((0xffffffff * Math.random()) >>> 0).toString(16), s.length % 2 && (s+='0')
return s.substr(0, s.length + n)
}
```
- The LUT looks fun, not sure it's faster than `toString(16)`
- `Math.random()` is collision-wise a horrible source of random..`randomBytes(8).toString('hex')` works nicer
- Avoiding dynamic allocation speeds things up, when final size is known ahead of time, define your output array/string with set size and use it as working memory.
Thank you this was fun :pray: can you point me in the right direction for parsing payload-data? I wanna go home :cry:
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- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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