In order to avoid prior situations of stalled syncs due to
outdated peer height data, we now update block heights up peers in
real-time as we learn of their announced
blocks.
Updates happen when:
* A peer sends us an orphan block. We update based on
the height embedded in the scriptSig for the coinbase tx
* When a peer sends us an inv for a block we already know
of
* When peers announce new blocks. Subsequent
announcements that lost the announcement race are
recognized and peer heights are updated accordingly
Additionally, the `getpeerinfo` command has been modified
to include both the starting height, and current height of
connected peers.
Docs have been updated with `getpeerinfo` extension.
This commit adds a new function to the blockchain package named
IsCoinBaseTx which performs the same function as IsCoinBase except it
takes raw wire transactions as opposed to the higher level util
transactions.
While here, it also adds a file for benchmarks along with a couple of
benchmarks for the IsCoinBase and IsCoinBaseTx functions.
Finally, the function was very slightly optimized:
BenchmarkIsCoinBaseOld 100000000 10.7 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkIsCoinBaseNew 200000000 6.05 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
This commit moves the definition of the flags which are needed to check
transaction scripts higher up the call stack to pave the way for adding
support for v3 blocks. While here, also spruce up a couple of sections.
There are no functional changes in this commit.
This commit contains the entire btcchain repository along with several
changes needed to move all of the files into the blockchain directory in
order to prepare it for merging. This does NOT update btcd or any of the
other packages to use the new location as that will be done separately.
- All import paths in the old btcchain test files have been changed to
the new location
- All references to btcchain as the package name have been changed to
blockchain
