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From: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@monetize.io>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Timed testing
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:09:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC1+kJMxjNReSMxm=vDB-iYyXTqBvXq5_aw0Z3onds0zF-Oq=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP3s9SpBWxLYMvF5cLK4UeKS2SdKOLpNr40NKGoAzh=3nw@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/17/14, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
>>
>> 2) If I wanted to measure validation performance, to get the number of
>> peak tps that could be processed without taking block sides or network
>> latency into account, how would I do that? Has anybody tried this
>> before?
>
>
> You can just reindex/replay the chain. It's been done many times.

Yes, thank you. I guess that's what everybody is doing to measure
validation performance.
So I guess the timedtest mode doesn't make much sense, at most only as
the blocktime parameter defaulting to zero. If bool
MineBlocksOnDemand() gets refactored out of ChainParams into a
parameter (maybe just use genproclimit ?), you can have the periodic
block generation and the generation on demand reusing the same regtest
mode.

So it seems a new mode only makes sense if the -private mode makes
sense, which in turn only makes sense to include in bitcoind if it's
useful enough for the network attack simulations, which remains the
open question.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-17 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-17 12:25 [Bitcoin-development] Timed testing Jorge Timón
2014-04-17 13:00 ` Gavin Andresen
2014-04-17 15:11   ` Jorge Timón
2014-04-17 15:49     ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-17 16:09       ` Jorge Timón [this message]
2014-04-17 17:07         ` Gavin Andresen
2014-04-17 17:43           ` Jorge Timón
2014-04-17 16:35       ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-17 14:37 ` Brian Hoffman

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