<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1ldcq03p2qe58u0xnlwa35wchjuhz49y6ueu5ghmtjetez9xstnvsmt8ur6</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1ldcq03p2qe58u0xnlwa35wchjuhz49y6ueu5ghmtjetez9xstnvsmt8ur6</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2017-04-07&#xA;📝 Original message:Expanding on this question a bit, it&#39;s optimized for parallel access, but&#xA;hard drive access isn&#39;t parallel and memory accesses are very fast, so&#xA;shouldn&#39;t the target of optimization be about cramming as much as possible&#xA;in memory and minimizing disk accesses?&#xA;&#xA;On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev &lt;&#xA;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Tomas via bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt; &lt;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; &gt;As this&#xA;&gt; &gt; solution, reversing the costs of outputs and inputs, seems to have&#xA;&gt; &gt; excellent performance characteristics (as shown in the test results),&#xA;&gt; &gt; updates to the protocol addressing the UTXO growth, might not be worth&#xA;&gt; &gt; considering *protocol improvements*&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; I&#39;m still lost on this-- AFAICT your proposals long term resource&#xA;&gt; requirements are directly proportional to the amount of unspent output&#xA;&gt; data, which grows over time at some fraction of the total transaction&#xA;&gt; volume (plus the rate of spending which is more or less a constant).&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Can you help out my understanding here?&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20170407/6a7fb499/attachment-0001.html&gt;</html></oembed>