Jacek Sieka d0dbc4a8f9
Snappy revamp (#3564)
This PR makes the necessary adjustments to deal with the revamped snappy
API.

In practical terms for nimbus-eth2, there are performance increases to
gossip processing, database reading and writing as well as era file
processing. Exporting `.era` files for example, a snappy-heavy
operation, almost halves in total processing time:

Pre:

```
     Average,       StdDev,          Min,          Max,      Samples,         Test
      39.088,        8.735,       23.619,       53.301,           50, tState
     237.079,       46.692,      165.620,      355.481,           49, tBlocks
```

Post:

```
All time are ms
     Average,       StdDev,          Min,          Max,      Samples,         Test
      25.350,        5.303,       15.351,       41.856,           50, tState
     141.238,       24.164,       99.990,      199.329,           49, tBlocks
```
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Introduction

ncli is a set of low level / debugging tools to interact with the nimbus beacon chain specification implementation, simliar to zcli. With it, you explore SSZ, make state transitions and compute hash tree roots.

Tools

  • transition: Perform state transition given a pre-state and a block to apply (both in SSZ format)
  • hash_tree_root: Print tree root of an SSZ object
  • pretty: Pretty-print SSZ object as JSON

Building

Follow the instructions from nimbus-eth2

git clone https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2.git
cd nimbus-eth2
make

Usage

# Build with minimal config
../env.sh nim c -d:const_preset=minimal ncli_transition
# Build with mainnet config
../env.sh nim c -d:const_preset=mainnet ncli_transition

# Run..
./ncli_transition --help