Tamas Blummer [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-04-07 📝 Original message:Once headers are loaded ...
đź“… Original date posted:2014-04-07
📝 Original message:Once headers are loaded first there is no reason for sequential loading.
Validation has to be sequantial, but that step can be deferred until the blocks before a point are loaded and continous.
Tamas Blummer
http://bitsofproof.comOn 07.04.2014, at 21:03, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Tamas Blummer <tamas at bitsofproof.com> wrote:
>> therefore I guess it is more handy to return some bitmap of pruned/full
>> blocks than ranges.
>
> A bitmap also means high overhead and— if it's used to advertise
> non-contiguous blocks— poor locality, since blocks are fetched
> sequentially.
>
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