From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•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 07:14:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgThKM8e3Oh1E6KXJ5rW_7H8=dxCLDq0NoQRwUjJ41t97g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBjG86ZYKZZXA4VCMiFhz0sdxr_so41Zr+DATOXyRa9_Jw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com> wrote:
> * Parallel block downloading (much faster sync on typical network connections).
"Much faster" is an understatement. Benchmarking here shows one hour
five minutes syncing to 295000. Old code isn't even at 250000 after
7 hours.
(I'm using 295k as the target here because after that point ecdsa
dominates, and then your 6+x faster libsecp256k1 makes more of a
difference)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-12 7:14 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 [this message]
2014-10-12 8:41 ` Geir Harald Hansen
2014-10-12 9:44 ` Luke Dashjr
2014-10-12 9:52 ` Wladimir
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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