The new benchmarks exercise script validation, CCoinsDBView caching,
mempool eviction, and wallet coin selection code.
All of the benchmarks added here are extremely simple and don't
necessarily mirror common real world conditions or interesting
performance edge cases. Details about how specific benchmarks can be
improved are noted in comments.
Github-Issue: #7883
3ac6de0 Align constant names for maximum compact block / blocktxn depth (Pieter Wuille)
b2e93a3 Add cmpctblock to debug help list (instagibbs)
fe998e9 More agressively filter compact block requests (Matt Corallo)
02a337d Dont remove a "preferred" cmpctblock peer if they provide a block (Matt Corallo)
2449e12 My DNS seed supports filtering (Christian Decker)
ffb4713 Add x9 service bit support to dnsseed.bluematt.me (Matt Corallo)
504c72a Comment that most dnsseeds only support some service bits combos (Matt Corallo)
67d6ee1 remove redundant tests in p2p-segwit.py (Johnson Lau)
9260085 test segwit uncompressed key fixes (Johnson Lau)
248f3a7 Fix ismine and addwitnessaddress: no uncompressed keys in segwit (Pieter Wuille)
b811124 [qa] Add tests for uncompressed pubkeys in segwit (Suhas Daftuar)
9f0397a Make test framework produce lowS signatures (Johnson Lau)
4c0c25a Require compressed keys in segwit as policy and disable signing with uncompressed keys for segwit scripts (Johnson Lau)
3ade2f6 Add standard limits for P2WSH with tests (Johnson Lau)
There are only a few uses of `insecure_random` outside the tests.
This PR replaces uses of insecure_random (and its accompanying global
state) in the core code with an FastRandomContext that is automatically
seeded on creation.
This is meant to be used for inner loops. The FastRandomContext
can be in the outer scope, or the class itself, then rand32() is used
inside the loop. Useful e.g. for pushing addresses in CNode or the fee
rounding, or randomization for coin selection.
As a context is created per purpose, thus it gets rid of
cross-thread unprotected shared usage of a single set of globals, this
should also get rid of the potential race conditions.
- I'd say TxMempool::check is not called enough to warrant using a special
fast random context, this is switched to GetRand() (open for
discussion...)
- The use of `insecure_rand` in ConnectThroughProxy has been replaced by
an atomic integer counter. The only goal here is to have a different
credentials pair for each connection to go on a different Tor circuit,
it does not need to be random nor unpredictable.
- To avoid having a FastRandomContext on every CNode, the context is
passed into PushAddress as appropriate.
There remains an insecure_random for test usage in `test_random.h`.
The new Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) allows a user to run a bash shell directly on Windows in an Ubuntu based environment. This can be used to cross-compile Bitcoin directly on Windows without the need for a separate Linux VM or Server. The instructions included in this commit explain how to configure the environment and build Bitcoin Core using this new feature.
