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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:13:15 +0100
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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Draft BIP for Bloom filtering
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Oh, one last stat - syncing the entire chain with a wallet containing
two keys and a 0.0001 FP rate (one or two FPs every 5 blocks or so)
resulted in a download of about 46mb of data.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
> I did some very rough initial performance tests.
>
> Syncing from a local peer gives me about 50 blocks per second in the
> later parts of the chain (post SD), which is about a 10-20x speedup
> over what I could do before. This is on a MacBook Pro. But at those
> points it's clearly bottlenecked by bitcoind which has saturated its
> CPU core. This makes sense - the filtering is much more server than
> client intensive because every transaction in every block has to be
> loaded and checked.
>
> I think filtering can be fairly well parallelized on the server side.
> So the current 10-20x speedup could potentially be larger if the
> server becomes more efficient at scanning and filtering blocks. It's
> still a very nice win for now, especially bandwidth wise. And if Matt
> makes the mempool command filtered it solves a common usability
> problem as well.
>
> Once we get this code in, merged and rolled out I think what we need
> for bloom v2 is clear:
>
>  - Multi-thread the filtering process in bitcoind so transactions can
> be checked in parallel. A 4-core server would then get 4x faster at
> filtering blocks and assuming it's not too busy doing other stuff we
> could maybe sync at more like 200 blocks per second, which is cool ...
> more than a days worth of history for each second of syncing.
>
>  - Make the client smarter so the FP rate is adapted during the sync
> process. An FP rate that makes sense post-SD results in no false
> positives pre-SD, more or less.
>
>  - Make the client shard its wallet keys over multiple peers, for
> better privacy.
>
>  - Make the client suck down filtered blocks in parallel from multiple
> peers, for better speed.
>
> As it seems the bottleneck for chain sync is now CPU time, the latter
> point may be the most important from a practical perspective.
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me> wrote:
>>> Ive been missing lately, when is 0.8 targeted for freeze?
>>
>> 0.8rc1 will probably happen when the core ultraprune/leveldb stuff is stable.
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Garzik
>> exMULTI, Inc.
>> jgarzik@exmulti.com