This commit contains three classes of optimizations: - Reducing the number of unnecessary hash copies - Improve the performance of the DoubleSha256 function - A couple of minor optimizations of the ShaHash functions The first class is a result of the Bytes function on a ShaHash making a copy of the bytes before returning them. It really should have been named CloneBytes, but that would break the API now. To address this, a comment has been added to the function which explicitly calls out the copy behavior. In addition, all call sites of .Bytes on a ShaHash in the code base have been updated to simply slice the array when a copy is not needed. This saves a significant amount of data copying. The second optimization modifies the DoubleSha256 function to directly use fastsha256.Sum256 instead of the hasher interface. This reduces the number of allocations needed. A benchmark for the function has been added as well. old: BenchmarkDoubleSha256 500000 3691 ns/op 192 B/op 3 allocs/op new: BenchmarkDoubleSha256 500000 3081 ns/op 32 B/op 1 allocs/op The final optimizations are for the ShaHash IsEqual and SetBytes functions which have been modified to make use of the fact the type is an array and remove an unneeded subslice. |
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database
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Package database provides a database interface for the bitcoin block chain and transactions.
Please note that this package is intended to enable btcd to support different database backends and is not something that a client can directly access as only one entity can have the database open at a time (for most database backends), and that entity will be btcd.
When a client wants programmatic access to the data provided by btcd, they'll likely want to use the btcrpcclient package which makes use of the [JSON-RPC API] (https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/tree/master/docs/json_rpc_api.md).
Documentation
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(http://godoc.org/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/database)
Full go doc
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installing this package by using the GoDoc site
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You can also view the documentation locally once the package is installed with
the godoc
tool by running godoc -http=":6060"
and pointing your browser to
http://localhost:6060/pkg/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/database
Installation
$ go get github.com/btcsuite/btcd/database
Examples
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[CreateDB Example] (http://godoc.org/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/database#example-CreateDB)
Demonstrates creating a new database and inserting the genesis block into it. -
[NewestSha Example] (http://godoc.org/github.com/btcsuite/btcd/database#example-Db--NewestSha)
Demonstrates querying the database for the most recent best block height and hash.
TODO
- Increase test coverage to 100%
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License
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