📅 Original date posted:2012-10-03
📝 Original message:On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Ian Miers <imiers1 at 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 at exmulti.com
Jeff Garzik [ARCHIVE] /
npub1kf…f3f58
2023-06-07 10:34:22
in reply to nevent1q…e77w
Author Public Key
npub1kf0ppcjaguxekg24yx6smgxlu73qn0k8lm0t2wrqc0scpl7u3sgsmf3f58Published at
2023-06-07 10:34:22Event JSON
{
"id": "e8622a1985e979e8655f4674d138cb2fb217107a2c707d10674c4b4974c2169e",
"pubkey": "b25e10e25d470d9b215521b50da0dfe7a209bec7fedeb53860c3e180ffdc8c11",
"created_at": 1686134062,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"20fcce3ae9ee48e6d0e9f55986fa44b12cd16eb6aaa83e3763809bdb5d83842c",
"",
"root"
],
[
"e",
"0a45a8286ac2a807b9e04144d795183cb10c0f570ebaaf2fe4d9bd4210d26da1",
"",
"reply"
],
[
"p",
"0c0d95a857efbb8a4b475df4ba1485c5e7005e6076dcf71bb16ff60b7246d6ef"
]
],
"content": "📅 Original date posted:2012-10-03\n📝 Original message:On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Ian Miers \u003cimiers1 at jhu.edu\u003e wrote:\n\u003e Whats the best way to get performance numbers for modifications to bitcoin ?\n\u003e Profiling it while running on testnet might work, but that would take a\n\u003e rather long time to get data.\n\u003e Is there anyway to speed this up if we only needed to provide relative\n\u003e performance between tests. (in a sense a fast performance regression test).\n\nYou have to be specific about what you're measuring, because\n\"performance\" is vague.\n\nYou can measure many aspects of blockchain performance by importing\nblocks via -loadblock=FILE.\n\nOther performance measurements like \"how fast does a block relay\nthrough the network\" cannot be as easily measured.\n\n-- \nJeff Garzik\nexMULTI, Inc.\njgarzik at exmulti.com",
"sig": "d0de26939b777238db15fb38afe563f6ac1c80dfb5fabd672ca8dd9870fe3640ac845f439686920da57de1cc65db70a3ba9ed23d247c1e35fe76e54ca13a741e"
}