From 946784907ad133328578b1ac0f0779bd6d247f51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florin Patan <florinpatan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 16:56:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Speed-up for string conversion function

---
 benchmarks_test.go |  7 +++++++
 uuid.go            | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/benchmarks_test.go b/benchmarks_test.go
index 6a8bf7e..9a85f7c 100644
--- a/benchmarks_test.go
+++ b/benchmarks_test.go
@@ -112,3 +112,10 @@ func BenchmarkUnmarshalText(b *testing.B) {
 		u.UnmarshalText(bytes)
 	}
 }
+
+func BenchmarkMarshalToString(b *testing.B) {
+	u := NewV4()
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		u.String()
+	}
+}
diff --git a/uuid.go b/uuid.go
index a956a41..e846485 100644
--- a/uuid.go
+++ b/uuid.go
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ const (
 // UUID epoch (October 15, 1582) and Unix epoch (January 1, 1970).
 const epochStart = 122192928000000000
 
+// Used in string method conversion
+const dash byte = '-'
+
 // UUID v1/v2 storage.
 var (
 	storageMutex  sync.Mutex
@@ -174,8 +177,19 @@ func (u UUID) Bytes() []byte {
 // Returns canonical string representation of UUID:
 // xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.
 func (u UUID) String() string {
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%x-%x-%x-%x-%x",
-		u[:4], u[4:6], u[6:8], u[8:10], u[10:])
+	buf := make([]byte, 36)
+
+	hex.Encode(buf[0:8], u[0:4])
+	buf[8] = dash
+	hex.Encode(buf[9:13], u[4:6])
+	buf[13] = dash
+	hex.Encode(buf[14:18], u[6:8])
+	buf[18] = dash
+	hex.Encode(buf[19:23], u[8:10])
+	buf[23] = dash
+	hex.Encode(buf[24:], u[10:])
+
+	return string(buf)
 }
 
 // SetVersion sets version bits.

From 6fa6b8092ee03271baca48d66a626ea0fef55de4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florin Patan <florinpatan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 17:07:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Use docker Travis to speed-up tests

---
 .travis.yml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3f1de31..0bbdc41 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ go:
     - 1.2
     - 1.3
     - 1.4
+sudo: false
 notifications:
     email: false