the cast worked around the bug at compile time by means of casting, but
introduced a runtime error, because the pre-cast type was still being
used during deserialization
- we have a new binary which connects via RPC to the respective BN and has an internal clock - waking it up on every slot
- the BN has a new option called --external-validators and currently in order to have the VC binaries to run we need to pass EXTERNAL_VALIDATORS=yes to make
- factored some code out of beacon_node.nim for easier reuse in validator_api.nim and validator_client.nim
- the VC loads its associated private keys from the datadir for its BN
- most of the validator API calls have been implemented as a stub.
- the VC polls its BN at the start of each epoch - getting a list of all active validators for the current epoch - and then continues to request blocks and sign them with its appropriate validators when necessary
* in makeBeaconBlock - use rollback instead
* in tests - this helps state_sim give more accurate data and makes it
30% faster
* fix some usages of raw BeaconState
* update more spec refs in beacon_chain/spec/presets; skip skipped constant sanity checks also from markdown reports' perspectives
* mark skipped as skipped in markdown
* Fix nbench compilation with HashedBeaconState
* Add nbench to tooling
* use newClone - fix 265e01e404 (r425198575)
* Detail advance_slot and hashTreeRoot
* Report throughput
* Fallback for ARM
* windows does not support inline ASM
The work on this was started last week while I was waiting
for a decision on the "Async Snappy" PR. It was prompted by
a failing test in the test suite, where the HashingStream
was inserting some incorrectly padded chunks that affected
the result of `hash_tree_root`. Instead of working around
the problem in the HashingStream, I've decided to implement
a planned optimisation that allows us to remove the hashing
stream altogether.
With the optimisation in place, `hash_tree_root` will now
use only stack memory and only the precise amount neccesary
to build the chunks-merging tree.
Jacek Sieka
Dustin Brody
Zahary Karadjov
Viktor Kirilov
Ștefan Talpalaru
Mamy Ratsimbazafy
Eugene Kabanov
Dmitriy Ryajov
Diederik Loerakker