Ian Miers [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2012-10-03 📝 Original message:Script evaluation ...

📅 Original date posted:2012-10-03
📝 Original message:Script evaluation performance was what I was primarily concerned with. I'm
fooling around with adding some new instruction types.
The tricky part is that to test how that effects performance, you need to
be able to intersperse transactions with the new instructions with existing
ones. For accuracy, you'd like your simulated traffic to at least
approximate the real world traffic.


Also, is there any bench-marking / instrumentation in bitcoind ?

Ian
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at exmulti.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Ian Miers <imiers1 at jhu.edu> wrote:
> > Whats the best way to get performance numbers for modifications to
> bitcoin ?
> > Profiling it while running on testnet might work, but that would take a
> > rather long time to get data.
> > Is there anyway to speed this up if we only needed to provide relative
> > performance between tests. (in a sense a fast performance regression
> test).
>
> You have to be specific about what you're measuring, because
> "performance" is vague.
>
> You can measure many aspects of blockchain performance by importing
> blocks via -loadblock=FILE.
>
> Other performance measurements like "how fast does a block relay
> through the network" cannot be as easily measured.
>
> --
> Jeff Garzik
> exMULTI, Inc.
> jgarzik at exmulti.com
>
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