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Re: Fast parallel block validation without UTXO-index
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piotr_n
on 10/04/2017, 18:16:18 UTC
And because you index both; spent and unspent transactions, you need even more memory than the UTXO-index solution, which you are trying to beat.

The bottom line is: no way this can perform better than a simple hashmap based UTXO-index.

Let me add some numbers here.

At this moment (block 461402) a typical UTXO index has 20438271 records (transactions) - that's 20 millions.
In the meantime a TXO index used by your solution needs more than 210 millions of records.
https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-total