Turns out, it's almost always allocating because we're mostly dealing with
small integers while the buffer size is calculated in 8-byte chunks here, so
preallocated buffer is always insufficient.
name old time/op new time/op delta
ToPreallocatedBytes-8 28.5ns ± 7% 19.7ns ± 5% -30.72% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
ToPreallocatedBytes-8 16.0B ± 0% 0.0B -100.00% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
ToPreallocatedBytes-8 1.00 ± 0% 0.00 -100.00% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
Fix StorageItem reuse at the same time. We don't copy when getting values from
the storage, but we don when we're putting them, so buffer reuse could corrupt
old values.
1. Use layered natives cache. With layered cache the storeblock
process includes the following steps: create a wrapper over
current nativeCache, put changes into upper nativeCache layer,
persist (or discard) changes.
2. Split contract getters to read-only and read-and-change. Read-only
ones doesn't require the copy of an existing nativeCache item.
Read-and-change ones create a copy and after that change the copy.
They never return errors, so their interface should reflect that. This allows
to remove quite a lot of useless and never tested code.
Notice that Get still does return an error. It can be made not to do that, but
usually we need to differentiate between successful/unsuccessful accesses
anyway, so this doesn't help much.
Oracle responses must use the same set of signers as oracle requests even
though the transaction itself is signed by oracle nodes/contract.
We can probably improve interop.Context by removing Tx field completely and
adding more functionality to Container, but it's not very convenient for
VerifyWitness and will require adding more stub-like methods for Block, so Tx
is used for now (and we do have it in every relevant case).
We have a lot of native contract types that are converted to stack items
before serialization, then deserialized as stack items and converted back to
regular structures. stackitem.Convertible allows to remove a lot of repetitive
io.Serializable code.
This also introduces to/from converter in testserdes which unfortunately
required to change util tests to avoid circular references.
1. `System.Contract.CallNative` expects version on stack.
2. Actual method is determined based on current
instruction pointer.
3. Native hashes don't longer depend on NEF checksum.
But don't change the way we process/store transactions and blocks. Effectively
it's just an interface for smart contracts that replaces old syscalls.
Transaction definition is moved temporarily to runtime package and Block
definition is removed (till we solve #1691 properly).
1. Initialization is performed via `Blockchain` methods.
2. Native Oracle contract updates list of oracle nodes
and in-fly requests in `PostPersist`.
3. RPC uses Oracle module directly.
Move oracleScript from global context to Oracle itself. We have the hash
already computed by NewContractMD, there is no need to repeat this
calculation.
