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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 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 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
Building
Install rustc, cargo and rustfmt:
$ curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
$ source $HOME/.cargo/env
$ rustup component add rustfmt-preview
Download the source code:
$ git clone https://github.com/loomprotocol/silk.git
$ cd silk
Testing
Run the test suite:
cargo test
Benchmarking
First install the nightly build of rustc. cargo bench requires unstable features:
$ rustup install nightly
Run the benchmarks:
$ cargo +nightly bench --features="unstable"