* misc memory and perf fixes
* use EpochRef for attestation aggregation
* compress effective balances in memory (medalla unfinalized: 4gb ->
1gb)
* avoid hitting db when rewinding to head or clearance state
* avoid hitting db when blocks can be applied to in-memory state -
speeds up startup considerably
* avoid storing epochref in fork choice
* simplify and speed up beacon block creation flow - avoids state reload
thanks to head rewind optimization
* iterator-based committee and attestation participation help avoid lots
of small memory allocations throughout epoch transition (40% speedup on
epoch processing, for example during startup)
* add constant for threshold
* update ve1.0.0-rc.0 preset spec references
* remove runtime preset ETH1_FOLLOW_DISTANCE from preset files; remove two CI build items to try to keep Travis from timing out
* update attestation extended validation to v1.0.0-rc.0
* attestation block and target must be within same epoch
* remove duplicate attestation epoch/target epoch check
* in spec now
This addresses the issues by detecting and rejecting keystores with
incorrect PBKDF2 and SCrypt params. It also bumps the version of
nim-json-serialization to include a bugfix for incorrect parsing
of json files featuring comments.
It turns out that we often save lots of states in the database that are
the result of empty slot processing only - here, we make sure to only
save a state if a block follows - this fixes several issues:
* empty slot states are not always pruned leading to state database size
explosion
* storing states is (very) slow which slows down processing in general,
so we should only do it when it's likely to be useful
* attestation processing doesn't get stuck on saving random states that
won't appear in the chain history
* Linux AMD64 binary distribution
The builds are reproducible, as long as our base Docker Hub image
remains available.
tl;dr: `make dist`
* use UTC dates
