From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti•com>
To: Ian Miers <imiers1@jhu•edu>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] performance testing for bitcoin
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 13:43:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+8xBpdZDznkyWXn8AxdUDk0CJ0b2m1qpTgVjtPbs0ge+ODCSg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEC9zAbkWWcn5eRHLh6u+zyGu92E1Yq-9CQVPqE_6-QwMVs=4Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Ian Miers <imiers1@jhu•edu> wrote:
> Whats the best way to get performance numbers for modifications to bitcoin ?
> Profiling it while running on testnet might work, but that would take a
> rather long time to get data.
> Is there anyway to speed this up if we only needed to provide relative
> performance between tests. (in a sense a fast performance regression test).
You have to be specific about what you're measuring, because
"performance" is vague.
You can measure many aspects of blockchain performance by importing
blocks via -loadblock=FILE.
Other performance measurements like "how fast does a block relay
through the network" cannot be as easily measured.
--
Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
jgarzik@exmulti•com
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2012-10-04 9:55 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2012-10-04 16:31 ` Ian Miers
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