Quote from: itod on February 27, 2015, 11:31:10 AM

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What is that x60 faster thing any way? How does it effect the protocol?

Gavin was testing his proposed changes, that include increasing the max block size from 1 MB to 20 MB. He noticed that the nodes were taking too long (hundreds of milliseconds) to validate a block, even when the node had seen all transactions before and thus did not need to validate them again. That wasted time impacted the time needed to propagate a block from node to node. He tweaked and hacked the code until he got that part of the code to run a lot faster, saving some memory too. That improvement reduced the estimated 1MB-block propagation time, in that easy case, from 600 ms to 10 ms.

Where can one find more info about this?

/r/bitcoin top post..

Thanks, I'm not following Reddit closely, most trolling friendly location on the interwebs.

You should. There is a tonne of valuable info on /r/Bitcoin comments - if you can sieve out the trolls. just like here.

How do you sieve out the trolls on Reddit? There's no ignore button, and they upvote each other.

Judgement, number of upvotes/downvotes. Maybe not worth the trouble for some