Some people keep thinking that MAX_BLOCK_BASE_SIZE is a separate
size limit from the weight limit when it fact it is superfluous,
and used in early tests before the witness data has been
validated or just to compute worst case sizes. The size checks
that use it would not behave any differently consensus wise
if they were eliminated completely.
Its correct value is not independently settable but is a function
of the weight limit and weight formula.
This patch just eliminates it and uses the scale factor as
required to compute the worse case constants.
It also moves the weight factor out of primitives into consensus,
which is a more logical place for it.
This changes the logging categories to boolean flags instead of strings.
This simplifies the acceptance testing by avoiding accessing a scoped
static thread local pointer to a thread local set of strings. It
eliminates the only use of boost::thread_specific_ptr outside of
lockorder debugging.
This change allows log entries to be directed to multiple categories
and makes it easy to change the logging flags at runtime (e.g. via
an RPC, though that isn't done by this commit.)
It also eliminates the fDebug global.
Configuration of unknown logging categories now produces a warning.
d59a518 Use fixed preallocation instead of costly GetSerializeSize (Pieter Wuille)
25a211a Add optimized CSizeComputer serializers (Pieter Wuille)
a2929a2 Make CSerAction's ForRead() constexpr (Pieter Wuille)
a603925 Avoid -Wshadow errors (Pieter Wuille)
5284721 Get rid of nType and nVersion (Pieter Wuille)
657e05a Make GetSerializeSize a wrapper on top of CSizeComputer (Pieter Wuille)
fad9b66 Make nType and nVersion private and sometimes const (Pieter Wuille)
c2c5d42 Make streams' read and write return void (Pieter Wuille)
50e8a9c Remove unused ReadVersion and WriteVersion (Pieter Wuille)
Given that in default GetSerializeSize implementations created by
ADD_SERIALIZE_METHODS we're already using CSizeComputer(), get rid
of the specialized GetSerializeSize methods everywhere, and just use
CSizeComputer. This removes a lot of code which isn't actually used
anywhere.
For CCompactSize and CVarInt this actually removes a more efficient
size computing algorithm, which is brought back in a later commit.
