Forced to invoke the construtor and instantiate a new object every time I want to increment an address index

bitcoinerlab / descriptors

A TypeScript library for parsing Bitcoin Descriptors, including Miniscript-based ones. Streamlines creating Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBTs) from Descriptors. Features BIP32, single-signature, and Hardware Wallet signing capabilities, and facilitates finalizing transactions.

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Hello again! Another question:

Is it intended behavior that for every address index a new Descriptor object has to be instantiated with a new index option? Is there no way to increment an index of an already existing Descriptor instantiated from a ranged expression?

When creating a large amount of addresses (e.g. 2000+) it would likely yield much better performance to do something like .getAddress(index) on an existing instance. For example, in my current tx building implementation, new Descriptor() takes around 40% of the whole execution time - which is a noticeable hog when a large number of transactions, with multiple inputs each, needs to be generated, especially on lower-end devices.

Thanks again for this very useful library!

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