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From: "Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo" <adan@stampery•co>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Simplicity proposal - Jets?
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 09:46:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d3a97f7-37c0-3eb6-6f39-00bd99c36132@stampery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMZUoKk+8MFLywQB3jQFkk7BYZ4Rw3Paj=ErQe8pZ0beGwu0RA@mail.gmail.com>

Oops. That makes much more sense than what I said. Thanks a lot for the
clarification.

On 03.11.2017 02:10, Russell O'Connor via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hi Jose,
> 
> Jets are briefly discussed in section 3.4 of
> https://blockstream.com/simplicity.pdf
> 
> The idea is that we can recognize some set of popular Simplicity
> expressions, and when the Simplicity interpreter encounters one of these
> expressions it can skip over the Simplicity interpreter and instead
> directly evaluate the function using specialized C or assembly code.
> 
> For example, when the Simplicity interpreter encounters the Simplicity
> expression for ECDSA verification, it might directly call into libsecp
> rather than continuing the ECDSA verification using interpreted Simplicity.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> 
> On Nov 2, 2017 18:35, "JOSE FEMENIAS CAÑUELO via bitcoin-dev"
> <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
> <mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I am trying to follow this Simplicity proposal and I am seeing all
>     over references to ‘jets’, but I haven’t been able to find any good
>     reference to it.
>     Can anyone give me a brief explanation and or a link pointing to
>     this feature?
>     Thanks
> 
>>     On 31 Oct 2017, at 22:01,
>>     bitcoin-dev-request@lists•linuxfoundation.org
>>     <mailto:bitcoin-dev-request@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>     The plan is that discounted jets will be explicitly labeled as
>>     jets in the
>>     commitment.  If you can provide a Merkle path from the root to a
>>     node that
>>     is an explicit jet, but that jet isn't among the finite number of
>>     known
>>     discounted jets,
> 
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Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo
CTO, Stampery Inc.
San Francisco - Madrid


  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-03  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5469.1509483670.27509.bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-01 10:34 ` JOSE FEMENIAS CAÑUELO
2017-11-03  0:45   ` Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo
2017-11-03  1:10   ` Russell O'Connor
2017-11-03  8:46     ` Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo [this message]
2017-11-03 12:59     ` Hampus Sjöberg
2017-11-03 16:19       ` Mark Friedenbach
2017-11-03 16:42       ` Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo

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