The current way of finding the skipchain IDs is to go through all blocks. As the
network.Decode is very slow if points need to be decoded, this takes a long time:
on the current chain (100k blocks), it takes about 5 minutes to decode all blocks.
This method only decodes the necessary fields, which gives a speedup of about
150x-200x.
Instead of a Benchmark, there is only a TestBenchmark, because go's Benchmark
insists on using high numbers of b.N, which take too long...
The current way of finding the skipchain IDs is to go through all blocks. As the
network.Decodeis very slow if points need to be decoded, this takes a long time: on the current chain (100k blocks), it takes about 5 minutes to decode all blocks.This method only decodes the necessary fields, which gives a speedup of about 150x-200x.
Instead of a Benchmark, there is only a TestBenchmark, because go's Benchmark insists on using high numbers of b.N, which take too long...
Closes #2374