import redis slow on FreeBSD / Python3.6 / related to uuid

[Brampie66]

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Version: 3.2.1, 2.10 ?

Platform: Freebsd, python 3.6.7

Description: import redis takes 6 seconds on python3.6, this is because import uuid takes this long.
With the uuid.py file from python3.7 importing goes faster but generating the first uuid1() takes long, uuid4() goes a lot faster.
I found this example, https://redislabs.com/ebook/part-2-core-concepts/chapter-6-application-components-in-redis/6-2-distributed-locking/6-2-3-building-a-lock-in-redis/
this uses uuid4(), is it of any importance that it is uuid1 ?

[adamantike]

Related CPython pull request, which wasn't back-ported to 3.6: python/cpython#3796

[andymccurdy]

This seems like a bug in the FreeBSD Python 3.6 implementation so there's not a lot we can do here.

There's no reason that uuid1 must be used -- any unique token will work. We could easily add a hook to make it easy to swap out the usage of uuid1 for something else.

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