A few unit tests have historically generated a lot of noise
to the console from log writes. This noise was not useful
and made it harder to locate actual test failures.
By changing the log level of these tests from
- severities::kError to
- severities::kDisabled
it was possible to remove that noise coming from the logs.
The existing logic involves every server sending every transaction
that it receives to all its peers (except the one that it received
a transaction from).
This commit instead uses a randomized algorithm, where a node will
randomly select peers to relay a given transaction to, caching the
list of transaction hashes that are not relayed and forwading them
to peers once every second. Peers can then determine whether there
are transactions that they have not seen and can request them from
the node which has them.
It is expected that this feature will further reduce the bandwidth
needed to operate a server.
The existing class offered several constructors which were mostly
unnecessary. This commit eliminates all existing constructors and
introduces a single new one, taking a `Slice`.
The internal buffer is switched from `std::vector` to `Buffer` to
save a minimum of 8 bytes (plus the buffer slack that is inherent
in `std::vector`) per SHAMapItem instance.
