From d21050a8aa1d9f578e8a736dde00dd946b2542ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Collins <davec@conformal.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 20:35:17 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add benchmark for readBlockHeader.

This commit adds a benchmark for the readBlockHeader function.
---
 bench_test.go | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bench_test.go b/bench_test.go
index c2b097c3..244a47e5 100644
--- a/bench_test.go
+++ b/bench_test.go
@@ -248,3 +248,27 @@ func BenchmarkSerializeTx(b *testing.B) {
 
 	}
 }
+
+// BenchmarkReadBlockHeader performs a benchmark on how long it takes to
+// deserialize a block header.
+func BenchmarkReadBlockHeader(b *testing.B) {
+	buf := []byte{
+		0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // Version 1
+		0x6f, 0xe2, 0x8c, 0x0a, 0xb6, 0xf1, 0xb3, 0x72,
+		0xc1, 0xa6, 0xa2, 0x46, 0xae, 0x63, 0xf7, 0x4f,
+		0x93, 0x1e, 0x83, 0x65, 0xe1, 0x5a, 0x08, 0x9c,
+		0x68, 0xd6, 0x19, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // PrevBlock
+		0x3b, 0xa3, 0xed, 0xfd, 0x7a, 0x7b, 0x12, 0xb2,
+		0x7a, 0xc7, 0x2c, 0x3e, 0x67, 0x76, 0x8f, 0x61,
+		0x7f, 0xc8, 0x1b, 0xc3, 0x88, 0x8a, 0x51, 0x32,
+		0x3a, 0x9f, 0xb8, 0xaa, 0x4b, 0x1e, 0x5e, 0x4a, // MerkleRoot
+		0x29, 0xab, 0x5f, 0x49, // Timestamp
+		0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0x1d, // Bits
+		0xf3, 0xe0, 0x01, 0x00, // Nonce
+		0x00, // TxnCount Varint
+	}
+	var header btcwire.BlockHeader
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		btcwire.TstReadBlockHeader(bytes.NewBuffer(buf), 0, &header)
+	}
+}