📅 Original date posted:2014-10-12
📝 Original message:On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille at gmail.com> wrote:
> * Parallel block downloading (much faster sync on typical network connections).
"Much faster" is an understatement. Benchmarking here shows one hour
five minutes syncing to 295000. Old code isn't even at 250000 after
7 hours.
(I'm using 295k as the target here because after that point ecdsa
dominates, and then your 6+x faster libsecp256k1 makes more of a
difference)
Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-07 15:26:23
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