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William Banfield 3 years ago
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@ -180,14 +180,14 @@ func (t TxRecordSet) Validate(maxSizeBytes int64, otxs Txs) error {
// It sorts the original transaction list, otxs, once.
// It sorts the new transaction list twice: once when sorting 'all', the total list,
// and once by sorting the set of the added, removed, and unmodified transactions indexes,
// which, when combined, comprise the complete list of transactions.
// which, when combined, comprise the complete list of modified transactions.
//
// The original list is iterated once and the modified list is iterated multiple times,
// one time alongside each of the 3 indexes for a total of 4 iterations of the modified list.
// Asymptotically, this yields a total runtime of O(N*log(N) + N + 2*M*log(M) + 4*M),
// in the input size of the original list and the input size of the new list respectively.
// A 2 * M performance gain is possible but iterating all of the indexes simultaneously
// alongside the original list, but the multiple iterations were preferred to be more
// A 2 * M performance gain is possible by iterating all of the indexes simultaneously
// alongside the full list, but the multiple iterations were preferred to be more
// readable and maintainable.
// Sort a copy of the complete transaction slice so we can check for


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