Fix duping and add tests.
C# node actually implements DUP in the same way we did, but it does create a
new element when accessing some particular value (like BigInt() or Bytes()) so
in the end this DUP implementation doesn't lead to any visible side-effects. In
our case I think it's more appropriate to fix the DUP (and its variants) itself
avoiding useless allocations in the VM.
Add `Roll` method to Stack that doesn't pop and push values and use it for
ROLL and ROT.
1.4M->1.5M 100K block import test before:
real 3m44,292s
user 5m43,494s
sys 0m34,741s
After:
real 3m40,449s
user 5m42,701s
sys 0m35,500s
Add `Swap` method to the Stack and use it for both SWAP and XSWAP. Avoid
element popping and pushing (and associated accounting costs).
1.4M->1.5M 100K block import test before:
real 3m51,885s
user 5m54,744s
sys 0m38,444s
After:
real 3m44,292s
user 5m43,494s
sys 0m34,741s
The last piece left for the #334. I think this problem was solved by #517 and
if we're to improve anything in this space we're gonna be building upon things
done there, so this old code is completely useless and can be removed.
First of all, it was wrong, it was not checking for inputs really, it compared
tx hashes for some reason, second, when it did compare inputs it compared only
the PrevIndex part of them which is also wrong.
Also, there is absolutely no reason to go through GetVerifiedTransactions()
here, we don't need this copy of pointers and it can also be outdated by the
time we're to finish our check.
Before:
BenchmarkTXPerformanceTest-4
5000 485506 ns/op 65886 B/op 409 allocs/op
ok github.com/CityOfZion/neo-go/integration 3.212s
After:
enchmarkTXPerformanceTest-4
5000 371104 ns/op 44367 B/op 408 allocs/op
ok github.com/CityOfZion/neo-go/integration 2.712s
This simple change improves our BenchmarkTXPerformanceTest by 14%, just
because we don't waste time on reallocations during append().
Before:
10000 439754 ns/op 218859 B/op 428 allocs/op
ok github.com/CityOfZion/neo-go/integration 5.423s
After:
10000 369833 ns/op 87209 B/op 412 allocs/op
ok github.com/CityOfZion/neo-go/integration 4.612s
Creating a new BinReader for every instruction is a bit too much and it adds
about 1% overhead on block import (and actually is quite visible in the VM
profiling statistics). So use a bit more ugly but efficient method.
It's useless work being done before it's actually needed. These (updated with
new values) are going to be written with some kind of Put anyway, so writing
them here is just a waste of time.
We're spending a lot of time here, 100K blocks import starting at 1.4M, before
this patch:
real 4m17,748s
user 6m23,316s
sys 0m37,866s
After:
real 3m54,968s
user 5m56,547s
sys 0m39,398s
9% is quite a substantial improvement to justify this change.
Importing 100K blocks starting at 1.4M, before this patch:
real 6m0,356s
user 8m52,293s
sys 0m47,372s
After this patch:
real 4m17,748s
user 6m23,316s
sys 0m37,866s
Almost 30% better.
Do not fill verification script randomly as there is a probability
for it to be executed sucessfully.
time="2019-12-12T17:24:22+03:00" level=info msg="blockchain persist completed" blockHeight=0 headerHeight=0 persistedBlocks=0 persistedKeys=15 took="54.474µs"
time="2019-12-12T17:24:23+03:00" level=info msg="blockchain persist completed" blockHeight=0 headerHeight=0 persistedBlocks=0 persistedKeys=15 took="49.312µs"
2019-12-12T17:24:24.026+0300 DEBUG can't verify payload from #%d1 {"module": "dbft"}
--- FAIL: TestPayload_Sign (0.00s)
payload_test.go:302:
Error Trace: payload_test.go:302
Error: Should be false
Test: TestPayload_Sign
FAIL
coverage: 75.8% of statements
FAIL github.com/CityOfZion/neo-go/pkg/consensus 2.145s
io: remove Read/Write LE/BE
They were replaced with faster specialized versions earlier. The only obstacle
on the way to removing them completely was dbft library, which is also updated
in this PR.
It's a getter function and even though it's quite fancy with its transactions
processing (for consensus operation) it shouldn't ever change the state of the
Blockchain. If we're to change anything here these changes may conflict with
the actual block processing later or may lead to broken state (if transactions
won't be approved for some reason).
go vet is not happy about them:
pkg/io/binaryReader.go:92:21: method ReadByte() byte should have signature ReadByte() (byte, error)
pkg/io/binaryWriter.go:75:21: method WriteByte(u8 byte) should have signature WriteByte(byte) error
This seriously improves the serialization/deserialization performance for
several reasons:
* no time spent in `binary` reflection
* no memory allocations being made on every read/write
* uses fast ReadBytes everywhere it's appropriate
It also makes Fixed8 Serializable just for convenience.
