Once headers are loaded first there is no reason for sequential loading. Validation has to be sequantial, but that step can be deferred until the blocks before a point are loaded and continous.
Tamas Blummer http://bitsofproof.com On 07.04.2014, at 21:03, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Tamas Blummer <ta...@bitsofproof.com> wrote: >> therefore I guess it is more handy to return some bitmap of pruned/full >> blocks than ranges. > > A bitmap also means high overhead and— if it's used to advertise > non-contiguous blocks— poor locality, since blocks are fetched > sequentially. >
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