public inbox for bitcoindev@googlegroups.com
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] overall bitcoin client code quality
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:50:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP3bidQZHBacJf2_DB_1AbknBPwtXqwk1ic+OSzhGs6xHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310516279.2279.20.camel@Desktop666>

For what it's worth, BitCoinJ has a NetworkParameters abstraction that
does what you suggest (groups all the constants together):

  http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/source/browse/trunk/src/com/google/bitcoin/core/NetworkParameters.java

It exists primarily to make unit testing easier. In the test suite, we
often build small chains and other structures. We do this by using a
NetworkParameters that has the easiest difficulty possible. It means
you can solve blocks in a few attempts, easily fast enough to build
test chains of any length you like.

I suspect that as the test suite expands, a similar abstraction will
be introduced to the Satoshi client.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-13 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-12 21:47 [Bitcoin-development] overall bitcoin client code quality Michael Offel
2011-07-12 23:40 ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-07-13  0:17 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-13 11:50   ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2011-07-13 13:04     ` Andy Parkins
2011-07-13 18:37       ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-13 21:41         ` Andy Parkins
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-10 22:37 Michael Offel
2011-07-10 23:07 ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-10 23:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-10 23:36 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-11  2:01 ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-12  4:13   ` Alan Grimes
2011-07-12  5:19     ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-11  9:33 ` Mike Hearn
2011-07-12  3:31   ` Gavin Andresen
2011-07-12  7:21   ` John Smith
2011-07-12 22:50   ` Michael Offel

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CANEZrP3bidQZHBacJf2_DB_1AbknBPwtXqwk1ic+OSzhGs6xHA@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=mike@plan99.net \
    --cc=bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net \
    --cc=bitcoin-list@bluematt.me \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox