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4defdfab94[MOVEONLY] Move unused Merkle branch code to tests (Pieter Wuille)4437d6e1f38-way AVX2 implementation for double SHA256 on 64-byte inputs (Pieter Wuille)230294bf5f4-way SSE4.1 implementation for double SHA256 on 64-byte inputs (Pieter Wuille)1f0e7ca09cUse SHA256D64 in Merkle root computation (Pieter Wuille)d0c9632883Specialized double sha256 for 64 byte inputs (Pieter Wuille)57f34630fbRefactor SHA256 code (Pieter Wuille)0df017889bBenchmark Merkle root computation (Pieter Wuille) Pull request description: This introduces a framework for specialized double-SHA256 with 64 byte inputs. 4 different implementations are provided: * Generic C++ (reusing the normal SHA256 code) * Specialized C++ for 64-byte inputs, but no special instructions * 4-way using SSE4.1 intrinsics * 8-way using AVX2 intrinsics On my own system (AVX2 capable), I get these benchmarks for computing the Merkle root of 9001 leaves (supported lengths / special instructions / parallellism): * 7.2 ms with varsize/naive/1way (master, non-SSE4 hardware) * 5.8 ms with size64/naive/1way (this PR, non-SSE4 capable systems) * 4.8 ms with varsize/SSE4/1way (master, SSE4 hardware) * 2.9 ms with size64/SSE4/4way (this PR, SSE4 hardware) * 1.1 ms with size64/AVX2/8way (this PR, AVX2 hardware) Tree-SHA512: efa32d48b32820d9ce788ead4eb583949265be8c2e5f538c94bc914e92d131a57f8c1ee26c6f998e81fb0e30675d4e2eddc3360bcf632676249036018cff343e
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoin.org/en/download, or read the original whitepaper.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python, that are run automatically on the build server.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The Travis CI system makes sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and OS X, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.
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