Benchmarking Bitcoin Script Evaluation for the Varops Budget (Great Script Restoration)

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@Julian

Since the limit of the computational budget is fairly high I don’t expect the average block to come close to this budget at all, so fully validating the block should be way faster than the worst case,

I think in that case, the budget should be lowered to whatever worst case target we would have in mind.

@Julian

But also I am not sure how much we should worry about IBD times, to my understanding the default IBD in core uses assumevalid with very recent checkpoint blocks, so the average user does not even fully validate ~99% of scripts.

We should not justify new resource requirements based on practical hacks to get around the historical issues, imo.

@ajtowns

Doing benchmarks on the more powerful logic new opcodes enable might be more interesting

Agreed!