Adds the following:
- "get_miner_data" to RPC API
- "json-miner-data" to ZeroMQ subscriber contexts
Both provide the necessary data to create a custom block template. They are used by p2pool.
Data provided:
- major fork version
- current height
- previous block id
- RandomX seed hash
- network difficulty
- median block weight
- coins mined by the network so far
- mineable mempool transactions
RefreshOptimizeCoinbase was an optimization to speed up scanning of coinbase transactions before RingCT (tx version 2) where they split miner reward into multiple denominations, all to the same wallet.
When RingCT was introduced, all coinbase transactions became 1 output only, so this optimization does nothing now.
With p2pool, this optimization will skip scanning p2pool payouts because they use more than 1 output in coinbase transaction.
Fix it by applying this optimization only to pre-RingCT transactions (version < 2).
- rolling_median: tried to free uninitialized pointer in a constructor
- net_node.inl: erase-remove idiom was used incorrectly. remove_if doesn't actually remove elements, see http://cpp.sh/6fcjv
- bulletproofs.cc: call to sizeof() instead of vector.size(), luckily it only impacts performance and not code logic there
Minimalistic JIT code generator for random math sequence in CryptonightR.
Usage:
- Allocate writable and executable memory
- Call v4_generate_JIT_code with "buf" pointed to memory allocated on the previous step
- Call the generated code instead of "v4_random_math(code, r)", omit the "code" parameter
Contains two modifications to improve ASIC resistance: shuffle and integer math.
Shuffle makes use of the whole 64-byte cache line instead of 16 bytes only, making Cryptonight 4 times more demanding for memory bandwidth.
Integer math adds 64:32 bit integer division followed by 64 bit integer square root, adding large and unavoidable computational latency to the main loop.
More details and performance numbers: https://github.com/SChernykh/xmr-stak-cpu/blob/master/README.md
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