On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Tier Nolan <tier.no...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Blocks can be loaded in random order once you have their order given by >> the headers. >> Computing the UTXO however will force you to at least temporarily store >> the blocks unless you have plenty of RAM. > You only need to store the UTXO set, rather than the entire block chain.
The comment was specifically in the context of an out of order fetch. Verification must be in order. If you have fetched blocks out of order you must preserve them at least long enough to reorder them. Thats all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
