lighthouse/beacon_node/http_api
Paul Hauner fa6ad1a11a Deduplicate block root computation (#3590)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

This PR removes duplicated block root computation.

Computing the `SignedBeaconBlock::canonical_root` has become more expensive since the merge as we need to compute the merke root of each transaction inside an `ExecutionPayload`.

Computing the root for [a mainnet block](https://beaconcha.in/slot/4704236) is taking ~10ms on my i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz (no sha extensions). Given that our median seen-to-imported time for blocks is presently 300-400ms, removing a few duplicated block roots (~30ms) could represent an easy 10% improvement. When we consider that the seen-to-imported times include operations *after* the block has been placed in the early attester cache, we could expect the 30ms to be more significant WRT our seen-to-attestable times.

## Additional Info

NA
2022-09-23 03:52:42 +00:00
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src Deduplicate block root computation (#3590) 2022-09-23 03:52:42 +00:00
tests Deduplicate block root computation (#3590) 2022-09-23 03:52:42 +00:00
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