From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
To: Geir Harald Hansen <operator@bitminter•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Request for review/testing: headers-first synchronization in Bitcoin Core
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 11:52:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJA=zgacbURh83DKyAV=x_t15xT=5cJTwSY8Omk2XZyuxA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <543A3EB9.4040803@bitminter.com>
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Geir Harald Hansen
<operator@bitminter•com> wrote:
> On 12.10.2014 01:34, Pieter Wuille wrote:
>> * No orphan blocks stored in memory anymore (reducing memory usage during sync).
>
> Will this slow down reorgs after a fork, compared to today?
Why would you think so? Orphan blocks are blocks whose parent is not
known. In the case of a reorganization the client 'jumps' to a new
best chain, for this to happen the original tip and the new best tip
and all their parents must be already known.
Wladimir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-12 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-11 23:34 Pieter Wuille
2014-10-12 5:51 ` Aaron Voisine
2014-10-12 7:14 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-10-12 8:41 ` Geir Harald Hansen
2014-10-12 9:44 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-10-12 9:52 ` Wladimir [this message]
2014-10-12 10:06 ` Geir Harald Hansen
2014-10-12 19:13 ` Jameson Lopp
2014-10-13 22:43 ` 21E14
2014-10-16 5:05 ` Rebroad (sourceforge)
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