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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Michael Gr=C3=B8nager <gronager@ceptacle.co=
m> wrote:
> The libcoin/bitcoind client downloads the entire block chain 3.5 times fa=
ster than the bitcoin/bitcoind client. This is less than 90 minutes on a mo=
dern laptop!

Very interesting. Do you know where this speedup came from?  It's not
typical for straight refactors that don't change datastructures and
the like to see such big speedups.

I see you have commented out code that disables fsync, which was my
first guess since I get big speedups from doing similar things.