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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Draft BIP for Bloom filtering
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:13:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP1iV8K7_GQkRw6gNSXr+22MWmwuiu5651sK+QtupBSZtg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP0HPgNKaNUMbFQS4Hj+gBQ6c7gatoeUXEiRSCA0wBkenA@mail.gmail.com>

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Sorry, to clarify, these are test builds available here:


https://code.google.com/p/bitcoin-wallet/downloads/detail?name=bitcoin-wallet-2.39_bitcoinj0.7.apk&can=2&q=

It's not on the Play store yet. It probably makes sense to release after
some more testing and after Bitcoin 0.8 comes out, as otherwise there's a
risk that 0.7 snapshot nodes will get overloaded.


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:

> Andreas has uploaded Android builds that use the new bloom filtering and
> peer selection code (also, dependency analysis of transactions).
>
> The performance gain is very cool. The app feels dramatically faster to
> start up and sync. Because the app syncs on charge when I opened it around
> lunchtime it had only 7 hours of data to sync (42 blocks) and it brought up
> 6 peer connections, found a 0.7.99 node and synced all in <2 seconds. That
> was on wifi.
>
> The next lowest hanging perf fruit is almost certainly to optimize disk
> accesses. Flash on Android devices seems to be much slower than laptop
> flash storage, and current bitcoinj is very inefficient in how it writes
> (one write per block header!). This matters a lot when doing fast catchup
> for first time users.
>
> The BIP is now a little bit stale, but only slightly.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me>wrote:
>
>> Actually, there is one more minor algorithmic change I would like to
>> make to the way the hash function is computed really quick before it
>> gets merged, I'll have that finished up by the end of today.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 11:43 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
>> > Matts latest code has been tested by Andreas and seems to work
>> > correctly. He had to extend the client a bit to refresh the filter
>> > every 25k blocks because even with the extra flag, eventually the
>> > filter degrades into uselessness, but it did still improve the
>> > situation quite a bit.
>> >
>> > Because it's unit tested, been reviewed by me several times, has an
>> > interoperable implementation that has also been tested by Andreas in a
>> > build of his smartphone app,  I'm going to ACK the current code and
>> > request that it be merged in to 0.8. What do you say Gavin?
>> >
>> > The next step after that would be profiling. It's a big performance
>> > improvement for SPV clients already, but not as much as I anticipated.
>> > I suspect there's a simple bottleneck or missed optimization
>> > somewhere. But that can obviously come post-0.8
>>
>>
>>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-30 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-24 15:56 [Bitcoin-development] Draft BIP for Bloom filtering Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 16:22 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-10-24 16:35   ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 17:11     ` Pieter Wuille
2012-10-24 18:54       ` Gavin Andresen
2012-10-24 19:00         ` Matt Corallo
2012-10-24 19:10         ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 20:29           ` Gavin Andresen
2012-10-24 20:58             ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-24 21:55             ` Jeff Garzik
2012-10-25 16:56 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-10-25 17:01   ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-10-26 14:01   ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-26 14:17     ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-10-26 14:21       ` Mike Hearn
2012-10-26 14:34         ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-11-06 19:14     ` Pieter Wuille
2012-11-21 15:15 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-11-21 18:38   ` Matt Corallo
2012-11-27 21:10     ` Pieter Wuille
2013-01-10 15:21       ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-11  3:59         ` Matt Corallo
2013-01-11  5:02           ` Jeff Garzik
2013-01-11 14:11             ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-11 14:13               ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-16 10:43                 ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-16 15:00                   ` Matt Corallo
2013-01-18 16:38                     ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-19  9:51                       ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-01-30 11:09                     ` Mike Hearn
2013-01-30 11:13                       ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2013-02-06 16:33                         ` Mike Hearn
2013-02-06 16:45                           ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-20 12:44                             ` Mike Hearn

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