[Bitcoin-development] Cut-through propagation of blocks

Ashley Holman dscvlt at gmail.com
Sat May 24 05:11:53 UTC 2014


On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Ashley Holman <dscvlt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> * Skip the inv/getdata sequence for new blocks - just push them out
> directly to save 1 roundtrip per hop
>

Upon further reflection, I remove this from my proposal.  It's an unrelated
optimisation that probably distracts from the main point which is the
cut-through forwarding.  The rest of the proposal still works if the
inv/getdata sequence is retained.
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