Bitcoin full node and query server
Oct 31, 2024
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evoskuil19:42
It's hard to imagine however that it's significantly faster to read all blocks off the network and store them, then it is to read them (with prevouts) all off of the disk in a pre-parsed format. But that's the cost of paging. With sufficient RAM there is no page swapping and we are strictly CPU bound.