Updates from the past week:
- More work on the p2p reader in grin#3433. The actual changes are quite technical and I recommend anyone who is interested in them to read the discussion in the PR. In my opinion the new code is conceptually cleaner, we now have better separation of the different layers and it makes it easier for us to build on top of it. The PR is in final review and should be ready to be merged soon.
- Progress on the new p2p messages for parallel IBD. I wrote down some of the technical details in a new RFC. Note that this RFC is unfinished and subject to changes, but it reflects my current thinking about the subject. It turns out that the data we need for the different types of MMR is very similar, which allows us to generalize a lot of the code. The implementation of it is underway and I will have a first PR (of multiple) up in the coming week.
Thanks everyone and see you in the next update post