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This is a `tracing`-driven optimisation. While investigating why Lighthouse is slow to send `newPayload`, I found a suspicious 13ms of computation on the hot path in `gossip_block_into_execution_pending_block_slashable`: <img width="1998" height="1022" alt="headercalc" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e4f88c1a-da23-47b4-b533-cf5479a1c55c" /> Looking at the current implementation we can see that the _only_ thing that happens prior to calling into `from_gossip_verified_block` is the calculation of a `header`. We first call `SignatureVerifiedBlock::from_gossip_verified_block_check_slashable`:261322c3e3/beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/block_verification.rs (L1075-L1076)Which is where the `header` is calculated prior to calling `from_gossip_verified_block`:261322c3e3/beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/block_verification.rs (L1224-L1226)Notice that the `header` is _only_ used in the case of an error, yet we spend time computing it every time! This PR moves the calculation of the header (which involves hashing the whole beacon block, including the execution payload), into the error case. We take a cheap clone of the `Arc`'d beacon block on the hot path, and use this for calculating the header _only_ in the case an error actually occurs. This shaves 10-20ms off our pre-newPayload delays, and 10-20ms off every block processing 🎉 Co-Authored-By: Michael Sproul <michael@sigmaprime.io>
Lighthouse: Ethereum consensus client
An open-source Ethereum consensus client, written in Rust and maintained by Sigma Prime.
Overview
Lighthouse is:
- Ready for use on Ethereum consensus mainnet.
- Fully open-source, licensed under Apache 2.0.
- Security-focused. Fuzzing techniques have been continuously applied and several external security reviews have been performed.
- Built in Rust, a modern language providing unique safety guarantees and excellent performance (comparable to C++).
- Funded by various organisations, including Sigma Prime, the Ethereum Foundation, Consensys, the Decentralization Foundation and private individuals.
- Actively involved in the specification and security analysis of the Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus specification.
Staking Deposit Contract
The Lighthouse team acknowledges
0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa
as the canonical staking deposit contract address.
Documentation
The Lighthouse Book contains information for users and developers.
The Lighthouse team maintains a blog at https://blog.sigmaprime.io/tag/lighthouse which contains periodic progress updates, roadmap insights and interesting findings.
Branches
Lighthouse maintains two permanent branches:
stable: Always points to the latest stable release.- This is ideal for most users.
unstable: Used for development, contains the latest PRs.- Developers should base their PRs on this branch.
Contributing
Lighthouse welcomes contributors.
If you are looking to contribute, please head to the Contributing section of the Lighthouse book.
Contact
The best place for discussion is the Lighthouse Discord server.
Sign up to the Lighthouse Development Updates mailing list for email notifications about releases, network status and other important information.
Encrypt sensitive messages using our PGP key.
Donations
Lighthouse is an open-source project and a public good. Funding public goods is hard and we're grateful for the donations we receive from the community via:
- Gitcoin Grants.
- Ethereum address:
0x25c4a76E7d118705e7Ea2e9b7d8C59930d8aCD3b(donation.sigmaprime.eth).