Wladimir [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-10-12 📝 Original message:On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-10-12
📝 Original message:On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Geir Harald Hansen
<operator at bitminter.com> wrote:
> On 12.10.2014 01:34, Pieter Wuille wrote:
>> * No orphan blocks stored in memory anymore (reducing memory usage during sync).
>
> Will this slow down reorgs after a fork, compared to today?
Why would you think so? Orphan blocks are blocks whose parent is not
known. In the case of a reorganization the client 'jumps' to a new
best chain, for this to happen the original tip and the new best tip
and all their parents must be already known.
Wladimir
📝 Original message:On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Geir Harald Hansen
<operator at bitminter.com> wrote:
> On 12.10.2014 01:34, Pieter Wuille wrote:
>> * No orphan blocks stored in memory anymore (reducing memory usage during sync).
>
> Will this slow down reorgs after a fork, compared to today?
Why would you think so? Orphan blocks are blocks whose parent is not
known. In the case of a reorganization the client 'jumps' to a new
best chain, for this to happen the original tip and the new best tip
and all their parents must be already known.
Wladimir