Update README

Author: jaredLunde

README.md

@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ u, err := uuid.FromString("6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8")
 // Parse a UUID from a byte slice
 u, err := uuid.FromBytes([]byte{0x6b, 0xa7, 0xb8, 0x10, 0x9d, 0xad, 0x11, 0xd1, 0x80, 0xb4, 0x00, 0xc0, 0x4f, 0xd4, 0x30, 0xc8})
 
+// Format a UUID
+asHash := u.Format(uuid.FormatHash)
+asBase58 := u.Format(uuid.FormatBase58)
+asCanonical := u.Format(uuid.FormatCanonical)
+
 // Scan a SQL UUID
 var u uuid.UUID
 err := db.QueryRow("SELECT id FROM users WHERE email = $1", email).Scan(&u)
@@ -51,23 +56,27 @@ Changing the default format will affect how UUIDs are marshaled to strings from
 
 ```go
 import (
-  "encoding/json"
-  "github.com/flexstack/uuid"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+
+	"github.com/flexstack/uuid"
 )
 
-uuid.DefaultFormat = uuid.FormatBase58
+func main() {
+	uuid.DefaultFormat = uuid.FormatBase58
 
-u := uuid.FromStringOrNil("ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff")
+	u := uuid.FromStringOrNil("ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff")
 
-// Marshal to base58
-m := map[string]uuid.UUID{"id": u}
-b, err := json.Marshal(m)
-fmt.Println(string(b)) // {"id": "YcVfxkQb6JRzqk5kF2tNLv"}
+	// Marshal to base58
+	m := map[string]uuid.UUID{"id": u}
+	b, _ := json.Marshal(m)
+	fmt.Println(string(b)) // {"id": "YcVfxkQb6JRzqk5kF2tNLv"}
+}
 ```
 
 ## Credit
 
-This package is a fork of [github.com/google/uuid](https://github.com/gofrs/uuid) with the following changes:
+This package is a fork of [github.com/gofrs/uuid](https://github.com/gofrs/uuid) with the following changes:
 
 - 2x improvement to `FromString`, `UnmarshalText`, and `UnmarshalJSON` performance
 - Adds base58 encoding.
@@ -76,3 +85,34 @@ This package is a fork of [github.com/google/uuid](https://github.com/gofrs/uuid
 - Fixes issue with [TimestampFromV7](https://github.com/gofrs/uuid/issues/128) not being spec compliant.
 - Removed v1, v3, v5 UUIDs.
 - Removed support for braced and URN string formats.
+
+## Benchmarks
+
+MacBook Air (15-inch, M2, 2023) Apple M2, 24GB RAM, MacOS 14.4.1
+
+### Format()
+```
+Format(FormatCanonical)        44625793         26.54 ns/op           48 B/op          1 allocs/op
+Format(FormatHash)             44022964         26.85 ns/op           32 B/op          1 allocs/op
+Format(FormatBase58)           5350190          224.0 ns/op           24 B/op          1 allocs/op
+```
+
+### FromString()
+```
+FromString(FormatCanonical)    70893008         16.88 ns/op           0 B/op           0 allocs/op
+FromString(FormatBase58)       16760137         71.77 ns/op           0 B/op           0 allocs/op
+```
+
+### NewVx()
+```
+NewV4()                        2961621          401.6 ns/op           16 B/op          1 allocs/op
+NewV7()                        3859464          308.7 ns/op           16 B/op          1 allocs/op
+```
+
+## Contributing
+
+Read the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) guide to learn how to contribute to this project.
+
+## License
+
+This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.