lighthouse-pulse/testing
Paul Hauner b0b606dabe Use SmallVec for TreeHash packed encoding (#3581)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

I've noticed that our block hashing times increase significantly after the merge. I did some flamegraph-ing and noticed that we're allocating a `Vec` for each byte of each execution payload transaction. This seems like unnecessary work and a bit of a fragmentation risk.

This PR switches to `SmallVec<[u8; 32]>` for the packed encoding of `TreeHash`. I believe this is a nice simple optimisation with no downside.

### Benchmarking

These numbers were computed using #3580 on my desktop (i7 hex-core). You can see a bit of noise in the numbers, that's probably just my computer doing other things. Generally I found this change takes the time from 10-11ms to 8-9ms. I can also see all the allocations disappear from flamegraph.

This is the block being benchmarked: https://beaconcha.in/slot/4704236

#### Before

```
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 980: 10.553003ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 981: 10.563737ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 982: 10.646352ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 983: 10.628532ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 984: 10.552112ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 985: 10.587778ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 986: 10.640526ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 987: 10.587243ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 988: 10.554748ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 989: 10.551111ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 990: 11.559031ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 991: 11.944827ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 992: 10.554308ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 993: 11.043397ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 994: 11.043315ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 995: 11.207711ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 996: 11.056246ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 997: 11.049706ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 998: 11.432449ms
[2022-09-15T21:44:19Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 999: 11.149617ms
```

#### After

```
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 980: 14.011653ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 981: 8.925314ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 982: 8.849563ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 983: 8.893689ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 984: 8.902964ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 985: 8.942067ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 986: 8.907088ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 987: 9.346101ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 988: 8.96142ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 989: 9.366437ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 990: 9.809334ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 991: 9.541561ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 992: 11.143518ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 993: 10.821181ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 994: 9.855973ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 995: 10.941006ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 996: 9.596155ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 997: 9.121739ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 998: 9.090019ms
[2022-09-15T21:41:49Z INFO  lcli::block_root] Run 999: 9.071885ms
```

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antithesis Fix antithesis docker builds (#3380) 2022-07-28 07:40:03 +00:00
ef_tests Use SmallVec for TreeHash packed encoding (#3581) 2022-09-16 08:54:06 +00:00
eth1_test_rig Fix ganache test endpoint for ipv6 machines (#3563) 2022-09-13 01:57:45 +00:00
execution_engine_integration Unblock CI by updating git submodules directly in execution integration tests (#3479) 2022-08-19 04:27:20 +00:00
node_test_rig Add merge support to simulator (#3292) 2022-07-18 23:15:40 +00:00
simulator Add flag 'log-color' preserving color of log redirected to file. (#3538) 2022-09-06 05:58:27 +00:00
state_transition_vectors Fix lints for Rust 1.63 (#3459) 2022-08-12 00:56:39 +00:00
test-test_logger Update to Rust 1.59 and 2021 edition (#3038) 2022-02-25 00:10:17 +00:00
web3signer_tests Builder Specs v0.2.0 (#3134) 2022-07-30 00:22:37 +00:00