Bitcoin full node and query server

Jul 1, 2026

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josie11:30
nice work regarding the vert tables! was also starting to suspect it was increasing io. i went down a different route with my benching and tried to understand the ultrafast internals a bit better. i came up with a few patches ive been running that have shown measurable improvements. namely, i want to move anything that can be considered sig verification to the GPU, i.e., no CPU marshalling batches and instead columns are streamed directly into reusable GPU buffers, verified on device, and copied back. i dont think we can ever truly get zero copy since we have to cross a device memory boundary. but if that is possible and the goal, i think this at least is a good step toward it anyways. @Vano Chkheidze you can see the patches i am using here: github.com/josibake/…/patches
josie15:18
might have a bug in one of my patches , but it raises another consideration: i think there should be a clear error code returned from ultrafast that indicates "I could not complete the operation / internal error," separate from consensus invalid. right now, if there is an issue inside the engine, it is treated as a consensus failure , which is the wrong treatment imo. I'm adding a patch now for that and running again, but wanted to mention here as a consideration