made map out of bytesecret and do look up second time

speeds up a lot . each takes 0.05 secs to calculate.

bin/nostr_console.dart

@@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ Future<void> main(List<String> arguments) async {
       getMentionEvents(gListRelayUrls2, userPublicKey, gLimitPerSubscription, getSecondsDaysAgo(gDaysToGetEventsFor)); // from relay group 2
       getKindEvents([0,3], gListRelayUrls1, gLimitPerSubscription, getSecondsDaysAgo(gDaysToGetEventsFor* 10));
 
+      // TODO  get all 40 events, and then get all #e for them ( responses to them)
+    
       // the default in case no arguments are given is:
       // get a user's events, and get all kind 0, 3 events
       // then get the events of user-id's mentioned in p-tags of received events and the contact list

lib/event_ds.dart

@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ class EventData {
     break;
 
     case 4: 
+
       if( userPrivateKey == ""){ // cant process if private key not given
         break;
       }
@@ -919,17 +920,32 @@ String myPrivateDecrypt( String privateString,
                          String publicString, 
                          String b64encoded,
                         [String b64IV = ""]) {
+
   Uint8List encdData = convert.base64.decode(b64encoded);
   final rawData = myPrivateDecryptRaw(privateString, publicString, encdData, b64IV);
   return convert.Utf8Decoder().convert(rawData.toList());
 }
 
+
+Map<String, List<List<int>>> gMapByteSecret = {};
+
 Uint8List myPrivateDecryptRaw( String privateString, 
                                String publicString, 
                                Uint8List cipherText,
                                [String b64IV = ""]) {
 try {
-  final secretIV = Kepler.byteSecret(privateString, publicString);
+
+  List<List<int>> byteSecret = [];
+  if( gMapByteSecret.containsKey(publicString)) {
+      byteSecret = gMapByteSecret[publicString]??[];
+  }
+
+  if( byteSecret.isEmpty) {
+    byteSecret = Kepler.byteSecret(privateString, publicString);;
+    gMapByteSecret[publicString] = byteSecret;
+  }
+
+  final secretIV = byteSecret;
   
   final key = Uint8List.fromList(secretIV[0]);
 
@@ -937,12 +953,14 @@ try {
       ? convert.base64.decode(b64IV)
       : Uint8List.fromList(secretIV[1]);
 
+
   CipherParameters params = new PaddedBlockCipherParameters(
       new ParametersWithIV(new KeyParameter(key), iv), null);
 
   PaddedBlockCipherImpl cipherImpl = new PaddedBlockCipherImpl(
       new PKCS7Padding(), new CBCBlockCipher(new AESEngine()));
 
+
   cipherImpl.init(false,
                   params as PaddedBlockCipherParameters<CipherParameters?,
                                                         CipherParameters?>);
@@ -957,7 +975,6 @@ try {
   //remove padding
   offset += cipherImpl.doFinal(cipherText, offset, finalPlainText, offset);
   assert(offset == cipherText.length);
-
   return  finalPlainText.sublist(0, offset);
 } catch(e) {
     //print("cannot open file $gEventsFilename");

lib/settings.dart

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ bool         gDontWriteOldEvents    = true;
 const int gDontSaveBeforeDays       = 100; // dont save events older than this many days if gDontWriteOldEvents flag is true
 bool         gOverWriteFile         = false; // overwrite the file, and don't just append. Will write all events in memory. 
 
+const int gDontAddToStoreBeforeDays = 60; // events older than this are not added to the Store of all events
 
 const int gDaysToGetEventsFor       = 70; // when getting events, this is the since field (unless a fully formed request is given in command line)
 const int gLimitPerSubscription     = 5000;
@@ -73,6 +74,10 @@ List<String> gDefaultFollows = [
                   "47bae3a008414e24b4d91c8c170f7fce777dedc6780a462d010761dca6482327", // slaninas
                   "c7eda660a6bc8270530e82b4a7712acdea2e31dc0a56f8dc955ac009efd97c86", // shawn 
                   "b2d670de53b27691c0c3400225b65c35a26d06093bcc41f48ffc71e0907f9d4a", // 0xtr
+                  "f43c1f9bff677b8f27b602725ea0ad51af221344f69a6b352a74991a4479bac3", // manfromhighcastle
+                  "80482e60178c2ce996da6d67577f56a2b2c47ccb1c84c81f2b7960637cb71b78", // Leo
+                  "42a0825e980b9f97943d2501d99c3a3859d4e68cd6028c02afe58f96ba661a9d", // zerosequioso
+                  "e8caa2028a7090ffa85f1afee67451b309ba2f9dee655ec8f7e0a02c29388180", // nostr_console test
                   "3235036bd0957dfb27ccda02d452d7c763be40c91a1ac082ba6983b25238388c"]; // vishalxl ]; 
 
  

lib/tree_ds.dart

@@ -1450,13 +1450,15 @@ Store getTree(Set<Event> events) {
     events.forEach( (event) =>  processKind0Event(event)? totalKind0Processed++: notProcessed++);
     if( gDebug > 0) print("In getTree: totalKind0Processed = $totalKind0Processed  notProcessed = $notProcessed gKindONames.length = ${gKindONames.length}"); 
 
+
+    if( gDebug > 0) log.info("kind 0 finished.");
+
     // process kind 3 events which is contact list. Update global info about the user (with meta data) 
     int totalKind3Processed = 0, notProcessed3 = 0;
     events.forEach( (event) =>  processKind3Event(event)? totalKind3Processed++: notProcessed3++);
     if( gDebug > 0) print("In getTree: totalKind3Processed = $totalKind3Processed  notProcessed = $notProcessed3 gKindONames.length = ${gKindONames.length}"); 
 
-    // process kind 7 events or reactions
+    if( gDebug > 0) log.info("kind 3 finished.");
-    //processReactions(events);
 
     // remove bot events
     events.removeWhere( (event) => gBots.contains(event.eventData.pubkey));
@@ -1468,12 +1470,16 @@ Store getTree(Set<Event> events) {
     // translate and expand mentions for all
     events.forEach( (event) => event.eventData.translateAndExpandMentions());
 
+    if( gDebug > 0) log.info("expand mentions finished.");
+
+
     if( gDebug > 0) print("In getTree: after removing unwanted kind, number of events remaining: ${events.length}");
 
+    if( gDebug > 0) log.info("Calling fromEvents for ${events.length} events.");
     // create tree from events
     Store node = Store.fromEvents(events);
 
-    if(gDebug != 0) print("total number of posts/replies in main tree = ${node.count()}");
+    if(gDebug > 0) print("total number of posts/replies in main tree = ${node.count()}");
     return node;
 }