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.
It reduces heap pressure a little for these elements as we don't have to
allocate/free them individually. And they're directly tied to transactions or
block, not being shared or anything like that, so it makes little sense for
them to be pointer-based. It only makes building transactions a little easier,
but that's obviously a minor usecase.
Before this patch on block import we could easily be spending more than 6
seconds out of 30 in Uint256 encoding for UnspentBalance, now it's completely
off the radar.
This adds the following verifications:
* merkleroot check
* index check
* timestamp check
* witnesses verification
VerifyWitnesses is also renamed to verifyTxWitnesses here to not confuse it
with verifyBlockWitnesse and to hide it from external access (no users at the
moment).
This one will replace blockCache in Blockchain itself as it can and should be
external from it. The idea is that we only feed successive blocks into the
Blockchain and it only stores valid proper Blockchain and nothing else.
The logic here is that we'll have all binary encoding/decoding done via our io
package, which simplifies error handling. This functionality doesn't belong to
util, so it's moved.
This also expands BufBinWriter with Reset() method to fit the needs of core
package.
* Adds basic RPC supporting files
* Adds interrupt handling and error chan
* Add getblock RPC method
* Update request structure
* Update names of nodes
* Allow bad addresses to be registered in discovery externally
* Small tidy up
* Few tweaks
* Check if error is close error in tcp transport
* Fix tests
* Fix priv port
* Small tweak to param name
* Comment fix
* Remove version from server
* Moves submitblock to TODO block
* Remove old field
* Bumps version and fix hex issues
* Created test_data folder with block json files for testing + create separate file for block base.
* Fixed bug in WriteVarUint + Trim logic + unit tests
* Refactored store and add more tests for it.
* restore headerList from chain file
* Fix tx decode bug + lots of housekeeping.
* Implemented Node restore state from chain file.
* Created standalone package for storage. Added couple more methods to Batch and Store interfaces.
* Block persisting + tests
* bumped version -> 0.31.0
* deleted transfer_output added asset type and transaction result to core
* removed writing 0x00 when buffer length is 0
* Refactored emit into VM package + moved tx to own package.
* implemented transaction along with claimTransaction.
* refactored naming of transaction + added decode address for uint160 types
* removed unnecessary folder and files.
* transaction/smartcontract logic
* bumped version 0.24.0
* Initial draft of the neo-go wallet
* Cleanup + more test for util package
* integrated wallet into neo-cli partially
* base wallet implementation + smartcontract code.
