This is a dirty and non-optimized backend, it is still faster than the
current git backend.
Main drawbacks:
- the leveldb binding is non-coopertive, the node will
block while committing a block to the disk ;
- the leveldb use 'string' while internally we use 'cstruct',
this implies a lot of time-consuming 'memcpy'.
When updating to 'irmin-1.3' we merged the branch too quickly and we
incidentally removed the support for 'git repack'. This induced heavy
usage of inodes.
This is still a temporary hack, while waiting for a proper backend for
irmin (e.g. based LevelDB).
This prepares the context to the inclusion the hash of the context in
the block header. By "looking" into the resulting context of a block,
we are now know able to determine whether:
- no testnet is currently associated to the branch;
- a testnet must be forked after the block;
- a previously forked testnet is running.
Intead of providing a `fitness` function, an economic protocol should
now call `Context.set_fitness`.
This simplify the shell's code and avoid complexity on protocol
change. Previously the fitness of a context produced by the old protocol
had to be read by the new protocol. Now, the shell read the context
without requesting the help of the economic protocol.
This refactors `src/node/shell/state.ml` in order to trace the source of
blocks and operations. This prepares the node for the three-pass
validator.
In the procces, it adds an in-memory overlay for blocks and operations.
