Received: from sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.192] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1StbG5-0006Dv-9W for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:18:25 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.212.175 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.212.175; envelope-from=mh.in.england@gmail.com; helo=mail-wi0-f175.google.com; Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com ([209.85.212.175]) by sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1StbFz-0000JS-TE for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:18:25 +0000 Received: by wibhm2 with SMTP id hm2so2821808wib.10 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:18:13 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.217.3.7 with SMTP id q7mr5279803wes.47.1343121492132; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:18:12 -0700 (PDT) Sender: mh.in.england@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.19.13 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:18:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <500D73B9.5030806@mistfpga.net> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:18:12 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: NqFEn5vlscHbLON6m0i55j3KZNs Message-ID: From: Mike Hearn To: =?UTF-8?Q?Michael_Gr=C3=B8nager?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (mh.in.england[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature 0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Headers-End: 1StbFz-0000JS-TE Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:18:25 -0000 > The Satoshi client uses a pure reentrant mutexes model As you presumably already know, the reference client doesn't attempt to parallelise most operations at all. Chain download is entirely single threaded.