Make FindBlockByHeight constant-time.

Remove the pnext pointer in CBlockIndex, and replace it with a
vBlockIndexByHeight vector (no effect on memory usage). pnext can
now be replaced by vBlockIndexByHeight[nHeight+1], but
FindBlockByHeight becomes constant-time.

This also means the entire mapBlockIndex structure and the block
index entries in it become purely blocktree-related data, and
independent from the currently active chain, potentially allowing
them to be protected by separate mutexes in the future.
This commit is contained in:
Pieter Wuille
2013-05-12 15:50:22 +02:00
parent 5b5d399593
commit 0fe8010a10
5 changed files with 36 additions and 51 deletions

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@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ index 04a8618..519429a 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ CTxMemPool mempool;
unsigned int nTransactionsUpdated = 0;
map<uint256, CBlockIndex*> mapBlockIndex;
std::vector<CBlockIndex*> vBlockIndexByHeight;
-uint256 hashGenesisBlock("0x000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f");
-static CBigNum bnProofOfWorkLimit(~uint256(0) >> 32);
+uint256 hashGenesisBlock("0x0f9188f13cb7b2c71f2a335e3a4fc328bf5beb436012afca590b1a11466e2206");