From ea1d57b4615ed41133fd7ffc2b3a71dea9c9058a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Fitzgerald Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:51:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update description --- README.md | 17 ++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 964bc2cc9..2238afce7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -6,15 +6,14 @@ # Silk, a silky smooth implementation of the Loom specification Loom is a new achitecture for a high performance blockchain. Its whitepaper boasts a theoretical -throughput of 710k transactions per second on a 1 gbps network. The first implementation of the -whitepaper is happening in the 'loomprotocol/loom' repository. That repo is aggressively moving -forward, looking to de-risk technical claims as quickly as possible. This repo is quite a bit -different philosophically. Here we assume the Loom architecture is sound and worthy of building -a community around. We care a great deal about quality, clarity and short learning curve. We -avoid the use of `unsafe` Rust and an write tests for *everything*. Optimizations are only -added when corresponding benchmarks are also added that demonstrate real performance boots. We -expect the feature set here will always be a long ways behind the loom repo, but that this is -an implementation you can take to the bank, literally. +throughput of 710k transactions per second on a 1 gbps network. The specification is implemented +in two git repositories. Reserach is performed in the loom repository. That work drives the +Loom specification forward. This repository, on the other hand, aims to implement the specification +as-is. We care a great deal about quality, clarity and short learning curve. We avoid the use +of `unsafe` Rust and an write tests for *everything*. Optimizations are only added when +corresponding benchmarks are also added that demonstrate real performance boots. We expect the +feature set here will always be a ways behind the loom repo, but that this is an implementation +you can take to the bank, literally. # Developing