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This is something interesting I came across during my benchmarks, we
spent ~3.8% of all allocations allocating the header number on the heap.
```
(pprof) list GetHeaderByHash
Total: 38197204475
ROUTINE ======================== github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core.(*BlockChain).GetHeaderByHash in github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/blockchain_reader.go
0 5786566117 (flat, cum) 15.15% of Total
. . 79:func (bc *BlockChain) GetHeaderByHash(hash common.Hash) *types.Header {
. 5786566117 80: return bc.hc.GetHeaderByHash(hash)
. . 81:}
. . 82:
. . 83:// GetHeaderByNumber retrieves a block header from the database by number,
. . 84:// caching it (associated with its hash) if found.
. . 85:func (bc *BlockChain) GetHeaderByNumber(number uint64) *types.Header {
ROUTINE ======================== github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core.(*HeaderChain).GetHeaderByHash in github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/headerchain.go
0 5786566117 (flat, cum) 15.15% of Total
. . 404:func (hc *HeaderChain) GetHeaderByHash(hash common.Hash) *types.Header {
. 1471264309 405: number := hc.GetBlockNumber(hash)
. . 406: if number == nil {
. . 407: return nil
. . 408: }
. 4315301808 409: return hc.GetHeader(hash, *number)
. . 410:}
. . 411:
. . 412:// HasHeader checks if a block header is present in the database or not.
. . 413:// In theory, if header is present in the database, all relative components
. . 414:// like td and hash->number should be present too.
(pprof) list GetBlockNumber
Total: 38197204475
ROUTINE ======================== github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core.(*HeaderChain).GetBlockNumber in github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/headerchain.go
94438817 1471264309 (flat, cum) 3.85% of Total
. . 100:func (hc *HeaderChain) GetBlockNumber(hash common.Hash) *uint64 {
94438817 94438817 101: if cached, ok := hc.numberCache.Get(hash); ok {
. . 102: return &cached
. . 103: }
. 1376270828 104: number := rawdb.ReadHeaderNumber(hc.chainDb, hash)
. . 105: if number != nil {
. 554664 106: hc.numberCache.Add(hash, *number)
. . 107: }
. . 108: return number
. . 109:}
. . 110:
. . 111:type headerWriteResult struct {
(pprof) list ReadHeaderNumber
Total: 38197204475
ROUTINE ======================== github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/rawdb.ReadHeaderNumber in github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/rawdb/accessors_chain.go
204606513 1376270828 (flat, cum) 3.60% of Total
. . 146:func ReadHeaderNumber(db ethdb.KeyValueReader, hash common.Hash) *uint64 {
109577863 1281242178 147: data, _ := db.Get(headerNumberKey(hash))
. . 148: if len(data) != 8 {
. . 149: return nil
. . 150: }
95028650 95028650 151: number := binary.BigEndian.Uint64(data)
. . 152: return &number
. . 153:}
. . 154:
. . 155:// WriteHeaderNumber stores the hash->number mapping.
. . 156:func WriteHeaderNumber(db ethdb.KeyValueWriter, hash common.Hash, number uint64) {
```
Opening this to discuss the idea, I know that rawdb.EmptyNumber is not a
great name for the variable, open to suggestions
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