Just another Python bitcoin-rpc client
Project description
Just another Python bitcoin-rpc client. Built as faster alternative to python-bitcoinlib rpc (https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib) and python-bitcoinrpc (https://github.com/jgarzik/python-bitcoinrpc) using pycurl and ujson.
Installation
pip install slick-bitcoinrpc
Example
from slickrpc import Proxy
bitcoin = Proxy("http://%s:%s@127.0.0.1:8332"%(rpcuser, rpcpassword))
print(bitcoin.getblock(bitcoin.getbestblockhash()))
Performance Comparison
Method
Here’s bash script able to measure performance of such bitcoin rpc clients
RPC_URL='http://username:password@127.0.0.1:8332'
TASKS=(
"p.getinfo()"
"p.getblock(p.getbestblockhash())"
"map(lambda tx: p.getrawtransaction(tx['txid'], 1), p.listtransactions())"
)
SETUPS=(
"from slickrpc import Proxy; p = Proxy(service_url='$RPC_URL');"
"from bitcoinrpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy; p = AuthServiceProxy(service_url='$RPC_URL');"
"from bitcoin.rpc import Proxy; p = Proxy(service_url='$RPC_URL');"
)
for TASK in "${TASKS[@]}"
do
for SETUP in "${SETUPS[@]}"
do
python -m timeit -s "$SETUP" -n 1000 "$TASK"
done
done
Results
Values are best of 3, msec per loop
getinfo() |
p.getblock(p.getbestblockhash()) |
map(lambda tx: p.getrawtransaction( tx[‘txid’], 1), p.listtransactions() |
|
---|---|---|---|
slick- bitcoinrpc |
1.01 msec |
1.17 msec |
27.7 msec |
python- bitcoinrpc |
2.53 msec |
3.89 msec |
41.9 msec |
python- bitcoinlib |
2.76 msec |
DeserializationExtraDataError |
AttributeError |
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