The benchmarks are still only compiled when running 'go test' so this has
no effect on regular usage. This is being done because benchmarks often
need access to internal state.
Normal tests are kept in a separate package since they also serve to
exercise the public API, and by intentionally making it more difficult to
reach into the internals, it helps ensure the public API is sanely usable.
Since the benchmarks can now access the internals directly, this commit
also removes the functions which exposed the internals to the test package
from internal_test.go which were only used by the benchmarks.
Rather than using bytes.NewBuffer, which is a read/write entity
(io.ReadWriter), use bytes.NewReader which is only a read entitiy
(io.Reader) in all cases where it is possible. Benchmarking shows it's
slightly faster and it's also technically more accurate since it ensures
the data is read-only.
There are a few cases where bytes.NewBuffer must still be used since a
buffer with a known length is required for those instances.
The genesis blocks are not really part of the wire protocol rather they
are part of a network parameters. Thus, this commit moves the all of the
gensis blocks and tests to the btcnet package.
Also, create variables in the test package for the mainnet genesis hash,
merkle root, and coinbase transaction for use throughout the tests since
they the exported values are no longer available.
