> Script evaluation performance was what I was primarily concerned
> with. I'm fooling around with adding some new instruction types.
> The tricky part is that to test how that effects performance, you need
> to be able to intersperse transactions with the new instructions with
> existing ones. For accuracy, you'd like your simulated traffic to at
> least approximate the real world traffic.
>
>
>
>
> Also, is there any bench-marking / instrumentation in bitcoind ?
>
>
> Ian
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Jeff Garzik <
jgarzik@exmulti.com>
> wrote:
> 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
>
>