From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt•me>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Draft BIP for Bloom filtering
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:09:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP0HPgNKaNUMbFQS4Hj+gBQ6c7gatoeUXEiRSCA0wBkenA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358348447.1048.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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Andreas has uploaded Android builds that use the new bloom filtering and
peer selection code (also, dependency analysis of transactions).
The performance gain is very cool. The app feels dramatically faster to
start up and sync. Because the app syncs on charge when I opened it around
lunchtime it had only 7 hours of data to sync (42 blocks) and it brought up
6 peer connections, found a 0.7.99 node and synced all in <2 seconds. That
was on wifi.
The next lowest hanging perf fruit is almost certainly to optimize disk
accesses. Flash on Android devices seems to be much slower than laptop
flash storage, and current bitcoinj is very inefficient in how it writes
(one write per block header!). This matters a lot when doing fast catchup
for first time users.
The BIP is now a little bit stale, but only slightly.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt•me>wrote:
> Actually, there is one more minor algorithmic change I would like to
> make to the way the hash function is computed really quick before it
> gets merged, I'll have that finished up by the end of today.
>
> Matt
>
> On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 11:43 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > Matts latest code has been tested by Andreas and seems to work
> > correctly. He had to extend the client a bit to refresh the filter
> > every 25k blocks because even with the extra flag, eventually the
> > filter degrades into uselessness, but it did still improve the
> > situation quite a bit.
> >
> > Because it's unit tested, been reviewed by me several times, has an
> > interoperable implementation that has also been tested by Andreas in a
> > build of his smartphone app, I'm going to ACK the current code and
> > request that it be merged in to 0.8. What do you say Gavin?
> >
> > The next step after that would be profiling. It's a big performance
> > improvement for SPV clients already, but not as much as I anticipated.
> > I suspect there's a simple bottleneck or missed optimization
> > somewhere. But that can obviously come post-0.8
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-30 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 15:56 Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 16:22 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-10-24 16:35 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 17:11 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-10-24 18:54 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-10-24 19:00 ` Matt Corallo
2012-10-24 19:10 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 20:29 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-10-24 20:58 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 21:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-10-25 16:56 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-10-25 17:01 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-10-26 14:01 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-26 14:17 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-10-26 14:21 ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-26 14:34 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-06 19:14 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-11-21 15:15 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-11-21 18:38 ` Matt Corallo
2012-11-27 21:10 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-01-10 15:21 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-11 3:59 ` Matt Corallo
2013-01-11 5:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-01-11 14:11 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-11 14:13 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-16 10:43 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-16 15:00 ` Matt Corallo
2013-01-18 16:38 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-19 9:51 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-01-30 11:09 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2013-01-30 11:13 ` Mike Hearn
2013-02-06 16:33 ` Mike Hearn
2013-02-06 16:45 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-20 12:44 ` Mike Hearn
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