This is my first time through this process so please bear with me. I opened a PR #6973 this morning for Zlib Block Compression for block relay and at the request of @sipa this should have a BIP associated with it. The idea is simple, to compress the datastream before sending, initially for blocks only but it could theoretically be done for transactions as well. Initial results show an average of 20% block compression and taking 90 milliseconds for a full block (on a very slow laptop) to compress. The savings will be mostly in terms of less bandwidth used, but I would expect there to be a small performance gain during the transmission of the blocks particularly where network latency is higher.
I think the BIP title, if accepted should be the more generic, "Support for Datastream Compression" rather than the PR title of "Zlib Compression for block relay" since it could also be used for transactions as well at a later time. Thanks for your time... _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
