Bitcoin full node and query server

Oct 12, 2024

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evoskuil12:37

It is likely that the default settings will be suboptimal for your machine, even resulting in thrashing. If you post your basic specs I can make suggestions. One of the aspects we are working on is automatically tuning what is presently manual configuration for given platform. Also note that if your CPU supports sha native (shani), which is about 5x faster individual hashing, it will distort realistic benchmarking, since shani is not yet integrated into the hashing library.

evoskuil02:01

Again, there is no need for outputs to persist in RAM. We are talking about sync times that are absurdly high without even performing script validation. There is no reason for scripts to be consuming RAM. Query over existence and spentness is sufficient.