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release: add a few performance-related notes

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Cory Fields 8 years ago
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@ -33,6 +33,28 @@ frequently tested on them. @@ -33,6 +33,28 @@ frequently tested on them.
Notable changes
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Performance Improvements
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Validation speed and network propagation performance have been greatly
improved, leading to much shorter sync and initial block download times.
- The script signature cache has been reimplemented as a "cuckoo cache",
allowing for more signatures to be cached and faster lookups.
- Assumed-valid blocks have been introduced which allows script validation to
be skipped for ancestors of known-good blocks, without changing the security
model. See below for more details.
- In some cases, compact blocks are now relayed before being fully validated as
per BIP152.
- P2P networking has been refactored with a focus on concurrency and
throughput. Network operations are no longer bottlenecked by validation. As a
result, block fetching is several times faster than previous releases in many
cases.
- The UTXO cache now claims unused mempool memory. This speeds up initial block
download as UTXO lookups are a major bottleneck there, and there is no use for
the mempool at that stage.
Manual Pruning
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