There are 2 problems:
1. `getvalidators` RPC can return empty list.
2. `+1` in single node can be too resrictive.
Proper solution for (1) may require requesting
standby validators. Here we add constant
to fix occasional test failures.
If port is dynamically allocated, `(*Server).Addr` will contain
0 port. This commit executes listener before exiting from `Start()`
and sets Addr to the actual address.
It's used in two places now:
* Blockchain.AddBlock()
This one does transaction duplication check of its own, doing it in
Verify() is just a waste of time. Merkle tree root hash value check is
still relevant though
* Block.DecodeBinary()
We're decoding blocks for the following purposes:
- on restore from dump
The block will be added to the chain via AddBlock() and that will do a
full check of it (if configured to do so)
- on retrieving the block from the DB (DAO)
We trust the DB, if it's gone wild, this check won't really help
- on receiving the block via P2P
It's gonna be put into block queue and then end up in AddBlock() which
will check it
- on receiving the block via RPC (submitblock)
It is to be passed into AddBlock()
- on receiving the block via RPC in a client
That's the only problematic case probably, but RPC client has to trust
the server and it can check for the signature if it really
cares. Or a separate in-client check might be added.
As we can see nothing really requires this verification to be done the way it
is now, AddBlock can just have a Merkle check and DecodeBinary can do fine
without it at all.
We're at the point where even this code can clearly be seen in profiles. We
can save on some buffers (and CPU cycles) by encoding the answer once.
Another ~2% TPS for single node.
Time is not really relevant for us here and we don't use this timestamp in any
way. Yet it occupies 24 bytes and we do two clock_gettime calls to get it.
Replace it with blockStamp which is going to be used in the future for
transaction retransmissions.
It allows to improve single-node TPS by another 3%.
To calculate network fee properly we must know type of every
signer (simple, multisig, contract). Providing scripts is the most
simple and flexible way to know this.
C# node is quite picky as it expects there to be exactly one value returned,
but our testchain actually adds 4 signatures for multisig cases instead of 3
which makes it technically incompatible with C# node.
As it's returned sorted now. Fixes state change mismatch for
NextValidators. It also partially reverts
2f8e7e4d33 and significantly changes the test
chain as the fees are no longer being sent to the same account.
