Jacek Sieka dcf8a6b05d
improve slot processing speeds (#1670)
about 40% better slot processing times (with LTO enabled) - these don't
do BLS but are used
heavily during replay (state transition = slot + block transition)

tests using a recent medalla state and advancing it 1000 slots:

```
./ncli slots --preState2:state-302271-3c1dbf19-c1f944bf.ssz --slot:1000
--postState2:xx.ssz
```
pre:

```

All time are ms
Average,       StdDev,          Min,          Max,      Samples,
Test
Validation is turned off meaning that no BLS operations are performed
39.236,        0.000,       39.236,       39.236,            1,
Load state from file
0.049,        0.002,        0.046,        0.063,          968,
Apply slot
256.504,       81.008,      213.471,      591.902,           32,
Apply epoch slot
28.597,        0.000,       28.597,       28.597,            1,
Save state to file
```

cast:
```
All time are ms
Average,       StdDev,          Min,          Max,      Samples,
Test
Validation is turned off meaning that no BLS operations are performed
37.079,        0.000,       37.079,       37.079,            1,
Load state from file
0.042,        0.002,        0.040,        0.090,          968,
Apply slot
215.552,       68.763,      180.155,      500.103,           32,
Apply epoch slot
25.106,        0.000,       25.106,       25.106,            1,
Save state to file
```

cast+rewards:
```
All time are ms
Average,       StdDev,          Min,          Max,      Samples,
Test
Validation is turned off meaning that no BLS operations are performed
40.049,        0.000,       40.049,       40.049,            1,
Load state from file
0.048,        0.001,        0.045,        0.060,          968,
Apply slot
164.981,       76.273,      142.099,      477.868,           32,
Apply epoch slot
28.498,        0.000,       28.498,       28.498,            1,
Save state to file
```

cast+rewards+shr
```
All time are ms
Average,       StdDev,          Min,          Max,      Samples,
Test
Validation is turned off meaning that no BLS operations are performed
12.898,        0.000,       12.898,       12.898,            1,
Load state from file
0.039,        0.002,        0.038,        0.054,          968,
Apply slot
139.971,       68.797,      120.088,      428.844,           32,
Apply epoch slot
24.761,        0.000,       24.761,       24.761,            1,
Save state to file

```
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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 nim-beacon-chain

git clone https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain.git
cd nim-beacon-chain
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