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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:11:05 +0200
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Tim=F3n?= <jtimon@monetize.io>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Timed testing
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On 4/17/14, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> wrote:
> How is this different from just running in -regtest mode and asking the
> nodes to generate a block after 1 or 2 seconds?

There's no difference, the -timedtest mode does exactly that. But
automatically instead of having to manually ask for a new block every
second.
I assume your position is that the difference is too small to justify
a new mode, or that you just don't see any value in it.

The -private mode, on the other hand, would allow you to simulate
proof of work attacks as described in the previous post, but maybe
there's a simpler way to do the same solely using regtest/timedtest.

Maybe I should have asked the following questions before proposing anything:

1) How does someone simulate a pow race situation without doing any
pow right now?
Does anybody try these things? How?

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?