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    core/rawdb: freezer batch write (#23462) · 794c6133
    Martin Holst Swende authored
    This change is a rewrite of the freezer code.
    
    When writing ancient chain data to the freezer, the previous version first encoded each
    individual item to a temporary buffer, then wrote the buffer. For small item sizes (for
    example, in the block hash freezer table), this strategy causes a lot of system calls for
    writing tiny chunks of data. It also allocated a lot of temporary []byte buffers.
    
    In the new version, we instead encode multiple items into a re-useable batch buffer, which
    is then written to the file all at once. This avoids performing a system call for every
    inserted item.
    
    To make the internal batching work, the ancient database API had to be changed. While
    integrating this new API in BlockChain.InsertReceiptChain, additional optimizations were
    also added there.
    Co-authored-by: 's avatarFelix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
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