86b47fa741 speed up Unserialize_impl for prevector (Akio Nakamura)
Pull request description:
The unserializer for prevector uses `resize()` for reserve the area, but it's prefer to use `reserve()` because `resize()` have overhead to call its constructor many times.
However, `reserve()` does not change the value of `_size` (a private member of prevector).
This PR make the logic of read from stream to callback function, and prevector handles initilizing new values with that call-back and ajust the value of `_size`.
The changes are as follows:
1. prevector.h
Add a public member function named 'append'.
This function has 2 params, number of elemenst to append and call-back function that initilizing new appended values.
2. serialize.h
In the following two function:
- `Unserialize_impl(Stream& is, prevector<N, T>& v, const unsigned char&)`
- `Unserialize_impl(Stream& is, prevector<N, T>& v, const V&)`
Make a callback function from each original logic of reading values from stream, and call prevector's `append()`.
3. test/prevector_tests.cpp
Add a test for `append()`.
## A benchmark result is following:
[Machine]
MacBook Pro (macOS 10.13.3/i7 2.2GHz/mem 16GB/SSD)
[result]
DeserializeAndCheckBlockTest => 22% faster
DeserializeBlockTest => 29% faster
[before PR]
# Benchmark, evals, iterations, total, min, max, median
DeserializeAndCheckBlockTest, 60, 160, 94.4901, 0.0094644, 0.0104715, 0.0098339
DeserializeBlockTest, 60, 130, 65.0964, 0.00800362, 0.00895134, 0.00824187
[After PR]
# Benchmark, evals, iterations, total, min, max, median
DeserializeAndCheckBlockTest, 60, 160, 77.1597, 0.00767013, 0.00858959, 0.00805757
DeserializeBlockTest, 60, 130, 49.9443, 0.00613926, 0.00691187, 0.00635527
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The unserializer for prevector uses resize() for reserve the area,
but it's prefer to use reserve() because resize() have overhead
to call its constructor many times.
However, reserve() does not change the value of "_size"
(a private member of prevector).
This PR introduce resize_uninitialized() to prevector that similar to
resize() but does not call constructor, and added elements are
explicitly initialized in Unserialize_imple().
The changes are as follows:
1. prevector.h
Add a public member function named 'resize_uninitialized'.
This function processes like as resize() but does not call constructors.
So added elemensts needs explicitly initialized after this returns.
2. serialize.h
In the following two function:
Unserialize_impl(Stream& is, prevector<N, T>& v, const unsigned char&)
Unserialize_impl(Stream& is, prevector<N, T>& v, const V&)
Calls resize_uninitialized() instead of resize()
3. test/prevector_tests.cpp
Add a test for resize_uninitialized().
There are only a few uses of `insecure_random` outside the tests.
This PR replaces uses of insecure_random (and its accompanying global
state) in the core code with an FastRandomContext that is automatically
seeded on creation.
This is meant to be used for inner loops. The FastRandomContext
can be in the outer scope, or the class itself, then rand32() is used
inside the loop. Useful e.g. for pushing addresses in CNode or the fee
rounding, or randomization for coin selection.
As a context is created per purpose, thus it gets rid of
cross-thread unprotected shared usage of a single set of globals, this
should also get rid of the potential race conditions.
- I'd say TxMempool::check is not called enough to warrant using a special
fast random context, this is switched to GetRand() (open for
discussion...)
- The use of `insecure_rand` in ConnectThroughProxy has been replaced by
an atomic integer counter. The only goal here is to have a different
credentials pair for each connection to go on a different Tor circuit,
it does not need to be random nor unpredictable.
- To avoid having a FastRandomContext on every CNode, the context is
passed into PushAddress as appropriate.
There remains an insecure_random for test usage in `test_random.h`.