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Author SHA1 Message Date
Zahary Karadjov ac16eb4691 Streamline the validator reward analysis
Notable improvements:

* A separate aggregation pass is no longer required.

* The user can opt to produce only aggregated data
  (resuing in a much smaller data set).

* Large portion of the number cruching in Jupyter is now done in C
  through the rich DataFrames API.

* Added support for comparisons against the "median" validator
  performance in the network.
2022-02-01 11:30:14 +02:00
Zahary Karadjov 47f1f7ff1a More efficient reward data persistance; Address review comments
The new format is based on compressed CSV files in two channels:

* Detailed per-epoch data
* Aggregated "daily" summaries

The use of append-only CSV file speeds up significantly the epoch
processing speed during data generation. The use of compression
results in smaller storage requirements overall. The use of the
aggregated files has a very minor cost in both CPU and storage,
but leads to near interactive speed for report generation.

Other changes:

- Implemented support for graceful shut downs to avoid corrupting
  the saved files.

- Fixed a memory leak caused by lacking `StateCache` clean up on each
  iteration.

- Addressed review comments

- Moved the rewards and penalties calculation code in a separate module

Required invasive changes to existing modules:

- The `data` field of the `KeyedBlockRef` type is made public to be used
  by the validator rewards monitor's Chain DAG update procedure.

- The `getForkedBlock` procedure from the `blockchain_dag.nim` module
  is made public to be used by the validator rewards monitor's Chain DAG
  update procedure.
2022-01-18 01:56:56 +02:00