The Equihash check caused block index loading to take around 38x longer.
However, we don't need to check it directly, as the only paths to writing a
block header to disk already go through a proof-of-work check (e.g. receiving a
block over the network). By forcing the block header inside the CBlockIndex to
be re-serialized, we retain the benefits of the consistency check without the
overhead at startup.
Co-authored-by: Brad Miller <brad@z.cash>
Delta values will be stored for new blocks; old blocks can be filled in by
re-indexing. The net value currently in the Sprout circuit is only calculated
when delta values for all previous blocks are present.
Requires placing block-107134.tar.gz (containing the block, and a fake CoinsDB
containing its inputs) into the base directory of the repository. This can be
generated using qa/zcash/create_benchmark_archive.py (see the script for usage
details).
To facilitate generation of the fake CoinsDB, an additional field 'valueZat' has
been added to 'getrawtransaction' containing the integer number of zatoshis
instead of a decimal number of ZEC.
Closes#2355.
For leveldb "An iterator operates on a snapshot of the database taken
when the iterator is created". This means that it is unnecessary to
lock out other threads while computing statistics, and neither to hold
cs_main for the whole time. Let the thread run free.
Jonathan "Duke" Leto
Duke Leto