* kvdb-rocksdb: update to RocksDB 5.8.8
* kvdb-rocksdb: tune RocksDB options
* Switch to level-style compaction
* Increase default block size (16K), and use bigger blocks for HDDs (64K)
* Increase default file size base (64MB SSDs, 256MB HDDs)
* Create a single block cache shared across all column families
* Tune compaction settings using RocksDB helper functions, taking into account
memory budget spread across all columns
* Configure backgrounds jobs based on the number of CPUs
* Set some default recommended settings
* ethcore: remove unused config blockchain.db_cache_size
* parity: increase default value for db_cache_size
* kvdb-rocksdb: enable compression on all levels
* kvdb-rocksdb: set global db_write_bufer_size
* kvdb-rocksdb: reduce db_write_bufer_size to force earlier flushing
* kvdb-rocksdb: use master branch for rust-rocksdb dependency
* separate migration from util and make its dependencies into libs:
* snappy
* kvdb
* error
* common
* renamed common -> macros
* util error does not depend on snappy module
* ethsync does not depend on util nor ethcore_error
* nibbleslice and nibblevec merged with patricia_trie crate
* removed unused dependencies from util
* util journaldb traits does not need to be public
* util_error
* fixed ethcore compile error
* ignore .swo files
* Update chain.rs
This is a huge change, which includes some changes to replace code that
originally cloned to reuse allocations instead. The updated
`elastic-array` crate renames its consuming `Vec`-conversion method to
`into_vec`, which means that I can do a simple
`sed -i 's/to_vec/into_vec/'` and then fix the compilation errors.
This commit is probably a minor performance win and definitely a
significant readability win.
* final engine changes
* migration to v13
* adding and removing pending transitions
* epoch_transition_for
* port snapshot to new engine methods
* final validator set interface
* fix compiler errors
* revert v13/epoch_depth transition
* make call on new epoch
* rolling finality checker
* tests for finality checker
* constructing finality proof upon pending transition
* fix warnings and finality proof checking
* fix compiler warnings in tests
* test fixes
* don't include genesis in finality checking
* change snapshot test chain building logic
* minor refactorings
* fetch epoch transition based on parent, fix divide-by-zero in SimpleList
* fix formatting
* fix ABIs and finality checking in snapshot restoration
* encode signal number in proof
* create more blocks at the end of tests
* update gist to accurate contract code
* test for epoch_transition_for
* fix tests with immediateTransitions parameter
* disable force flag after forcing
* rename ValidatorsChanged to InitiateChange and finalizeSignal to finalizeChange
* a few more validator set tests
* separate modules for consensus snapshot chunks
* bulk of authority warp logic
* finish authority warp implementation
* squash warnings and enable authority snapshot mode
* test harness for PoA
* fiddle with harness
* epoch generation proof fixes
* update constructor code
* store epoch transition proof after block commit
* basic snap and restore test
* use keyvaluedb in state restoration
* decompress chunks
* fix encoding issues
* fixed-to-contract-to-contract test
* implement ancient block import
* restore genesis transition in PoW snapshot
* add format version method to snapshot components
* supported version numbers in snapshot_components
* allow returning of ancient epoch transitions
* genesis hash mismatch check
* remove commented code
* fixed naming of rlp modules
* RlpStream cleanup
* appending short rlp lists (0...55 bytes) is 25% faster
* RlpStream does not use bytes module, nor trait Stream
* removed unused code from rlp module
* compiling ethcore-util with new rlp serialization
* compiling parity with new rlp serialization
* fixed compiling ethcore-light with new rlp serialization
* fixed compiling ethsync with new rlp serialization
* removed redundant comment, print
* removed redundant double-space
* replace usage of WriteBytesExt with ByteOrder
* Create new column family for local node info
* remove DBTransaction::new reliance on DB
* KeyValueDB trait
* InMemory KeyValueDB implementation
* journaldb generic over KVDB
* make most of `ethcore` generic over KVDB
* fix json tests compilation
* get all tests compiling
* implement local store (just for transactions)
* finish local store API, test
* put everything into place
* better test for skipping bad transactions
* fix warning
* update local store every 15 minutes
* remove superfluous `{}`s
