👍 l0rinc approved a pull request: "build: Drop support for EOL macOS 13"
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33489#pullrequestreview-3294934753)
Concept ACK for the version bump

Looking around for more versions and checking https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/446e73cc0bb7cd628039eaf9b1bcc93db23b924f it seem to me we could update a few more places:
* https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/3fa1185dda3b000b9c3956422fd2351e40969dec/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug.yml?plain=1#L81
* https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/3b824169c7766460794bb445028ac55a7111ee3e/contrib/guix/README.md?plain=1#L252

Note that latest `AppleClang` doesn't play
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💬 amishhaa commented on pull request "contrib: fix macOS deployment with no translations":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33482#issuecomment-3361487099)
hey @ismaelsadeeq ,Thank you for further highlighting that it is optional by the config comment, ill add this to the PR description as well and more details.

💬 andrewtoth commented on pull request "validation: fetch block inputs on parallel threads >10% faster IBD":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#discussion_r2399049434)
This is dangerous because it doesn't check for freshness or if already inserted. It is meant to bulk load new utxos from the assume utxo set. Since assume utxo assumes the utxo set is currently empty, the coins would always be inserted.
This is repurposed here to bulk load utxos from the db directly into the cache. However, an invalid block could be mined which spends an already spent utxo that is in the cache but has not been synced to the db yet. In that case,
the insertion will fail here.
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💬 sipa commented on pull request "Improve LastCommonAncestor performance + add tests":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33515#discussion_r2399052098)
Done.

💬 sipa commented on pull request "Improve LastCommonAncestor performance + add tests":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33515#discussion_r2399052318)
Done.

💬 sipa commented on pull request "Improve LastCommonAncestor performance + add tests":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33515#discussion_r2399052574)
Done.

💬 alexanderwiederin commented on pull request "kernel: Introduce initial C header API":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595#discussion_r2399052921)
I suggest, we move the `index` -> `tree entry` change to the previous commit.

💬 andrewtoth commented on pull request "validation: fetch block inputs on parallel threads >10% faster IBD":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#discussion_r2399056272)
We iterate the prevouts directly from the block now. However, we store the tx index and vin index in a global vector now. This way we can flatten the inputs instead of having to scan the txs to see how many inputs they have.

💬 andrewtoth commented on pull request "validation: fetch block inputs on parallel threads >10% faster IBD":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#discussion_r2399059149)
Not sure, would have to benchmark this.
I have updated the functions though to make the main thread's entrance clearer.

💬 andrewtoth commented on pull request "validation: fetch block inputs on parallel threads >10% faster IBD":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#discussion_r2399062889)
It is definitely safe to do, since all access would be on main thread. It is also safe to do from parallel threads if we don't write until all threads are done reading, which is what this PR does.
Prefiltering is slow though (several milliseconds) so is better to do in parallel.

💬 andrewtoth commented on pull request "validation: fetch block inputs on parallel threads >10% faster IBD":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#discussion_r2399067712)
I'm not sure I understand this.
The m_txids set is computed on the main thread, and is only read from multiple threads. If we didn't do this we would try to fetch non-existent outputs from the db, which would be much slower.

💬 l0rinc commented on pull request "validation: fetch block inputs on parallel threads >10% faster IBD":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#discussion_r2399069027)
Not sure why that's problematic, we don't *have* to have perfect parallelism, it seems to me we can assume uniform distribution - it's fine if there are outliers if that makes the code simpler (which I think it should, it could even eliminate most locks, since the jobs are basically completely independent)

💬 l0rinc commented on pull request "validation: fetch block inputs on parallel threads >10% faster IBD":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#discussion_r2399069282)
> I don't understand what this has to do with being lock free.

We may have fewer file system locks if the threads are accessing different regions

> I've updated to use semaphores instead of mutex

I will review that in more detail soon, probably next week.

💬 alexanderwiederin commented on pull request "kernel: Introduce initial C header API":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595#discussion_r2399070131)
Think this can be removed.

💬 andrewtoth commented on pull request "validation: fetch block inputs on parallel threads >10% faster IBD":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#discussion_r2399071701)
We don't really care, but it would be good to not continue doing work here if we know it's pointless. This just exits early. No validation is happening.

💬 andrewtoth commented on pull request "validation: fetch block inputs on parallel threads >10% faster IBD":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#discussion_r2399074127)
This is to not enter if there is only a coinbase tx, since it has no inputs to fetch. If there were 2 txs, and the second has 1000 inputs, we would still want to enter here.

💬 l0rinc commented on pull request "validation: fetch block inputs on parallel threads >10% faster IBD":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#discussion_r2399077894)
My benchmarks so far indicate the opposite: after 3-4 threads there is no benefit to the parallelization (either on SSD or HDD). I will remeasure your new changes after you give me the 👍

💬 andrewtoth commented on pull request "validation: fetch block inputs on parallel threads >10% faster IBD":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#discussion_r2399079463)
I don't think we can do that. We need to set these here for other threads to read. These are only read from other threads, never written to. We also only read from other threads after the main thread has released the counting_semaphore, so we know the pointers are synced across the threads.

💬 andrewtoth commented on pull request "validation: fetch block inputs on parallel threads >10% faster IBD":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#discussion_r2399082258)
Err, we want to throw a runtime error here to test the try/catch in the inputfetcher.

💬 alexanderwiederin commented on pull request "kernel: Introduce initial C header API":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595#discussion_r2399082925)
remove `kernel` to align with https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595/commits/43f850c1ae9a66d8de599b81d3d78e7178c12251