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From: Tamas Blummer <tamas@bitsofproof.com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes?
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 21:20:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8222EAFD-813E-4046-A751-FD3D04FF6764@bitsofproof.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgT_9tXCxOHX_sN0wa=GRMn5seu3-o1UdiLjvbivFr46_w@mail.gmail.com>


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Once headers are loaded first there is no reason for sequential loading. 

Validation has to be sequantial, but that step can be deferred until the blocks before a point are loaded and continous.

Tamas Blummer
http://bitsofproof.com

On 07.04.2014, at 21:03, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Tamas Blummer <tamas@bitsofproof.com> wrote:
>> therefore I guess it is more handy to return some bitmap of pruned/full
>> blocks than ranges.
> 
> A bitmap also means high overhead and— if it's used to advertise
> non-contiguous blocks— poor locality, since blocks are fetched
> sequentially.
> 


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-07 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-07 11:34 [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes? Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 12:17 ` Ricardo Filipe
2014-04-07 13:43   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-04-07 14:05     ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 14:15       ` Eric Martindale
2014-04-07 14:23         ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 19:46         ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-04-08  3:13         ` kjj
2014-04-08  7:50           ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-09 10:38         ` Wendell
2014-04-09 11:15           ` Wladimir
2014-04-07 14:45       ` Tom Harding
2014-04-07 12:19 ` Jameson Lopp
2014-04-07 12:26   ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-07 12:34     ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 12:34     ` Jameson Lopp
2014-05-20 18:38     ` Isidor Zeuner
2014-04-07 13:50 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 13:53   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 13:58     ` Jameson Lopp
2014-04-07 14:04       ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-08 11:28   ` Jesus Cea
2014-04-07 15:45 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-07 15:53   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 16:02     ` Jameson Lopp
2014-04-07 16:27     ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-07 16:57       ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 17:01         ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-07 17:16           ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 17:35             ` Brent Shambaugh
2014-04-07 17:40               ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 17:44                 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 17:45                 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 17:50                 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-07 18:30                   ` Arne Brutschy
2014-04-07 17:56                 ` Brent Shambaugh
2014-04-07 17:46             ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-07 17:39     ` Chris Williams
2014-04-07 18:23       ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 18:35         ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 18:49           ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 19:00             ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 18:48               ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-07 19:02               ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 19:05                 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 19:03               ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 19:13                 ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-07 19:20                 ` Tamas Blummer [this message]
2014-04-07 19:13                   ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-07 19:36                     ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 21:46                     ` Ricardo Filipe
2014-04-07 19:30                   ` Paul Lyon
2014-04-07 19:50                     ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 21:48                       ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-07 21:56                         ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-08  3:44             ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-08  7:24               ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-04-08  7:59               ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-08 17:18       ` Andrew LeCody
2014-04-07 17:07 ` Drak
2014-05-20  8:15   ` bitcoingrant
2014-05-20  8:42     ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-20 14:37     ` Eugen Leitl
2014-05-20 14:52       ` Gmail
2014-05-20 18:46         ` Andy Alness
2014-05-20 19:17           ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-20 20:09             ` Andy Alness
2014-05-20 20:22               ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-07 21:55 Paul Lyon
2014-04-07 22:14 ` Tier Nolan

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