The implementation we currently use from OpenSSL prevents the compiler from optimizing away clensing operations on blocks of memory that are about to be released, but this protection is not extended to link-time optimization. This commit copies the solution cooked up by Google compiler engineers which uses inline assembly directives to instruct the compiler not to optimize out the call under any circumstances. As the code is in-lined, this has the added advantage of removing one more OpenSSL dependency.
Regarding license compatibility, Google's contributions to BoringSSL library, including this code, is made available under the ISC license, which is MIT compatible.
BoringSSL git commit: ad1907fe73334d6c696c8539646c21b11178f20f
Make splash screen queue its own deletion when it receives the finished
command, instead of relying on WA_DeleteOnClose which doesn't work under
these circumstances.
since there is i/o that can happen when retrieving extended input
and output information, limiting the duration of the lock in getrawtransaction
can help improve concurrency
There was a previous assumption that blockindex would be quite small. With addressindex
and spentindex enabled the blockindex is much larger and the amount of cache allocated for
it should also increase. Furthermore, enabling compression should decrease the amount of
disk space required and less data to write/read. The default leveldb max_open_files is set to
1000, for the blockindex the default is set to 1000 with compression. The 64 value that is
current is kept for the utxo database and does not enable compression. Two additional options
are added here to be able to configure the values for leveldb and the block index:
- `-dbmaxopenfiles` A number of files for leveldb to keep open
- `-dbcompression` Boolean 0 or 1 to enable snappy leveldb compression