Change structure of Transactions for faster block decoding

[paulhauner]

Issue Addressed

NA

Proposed Changes

Reduces the time to decode a block by ~15% by changing the way that we represent an execution payload's transactions.

More details TBA

Additional Info

Before

lcli transition-blocks --block-path /tmp/block-10472248.ssz --pre-state-path /tmp/pre-state-10472248.ssh --runs 10
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z INFO  lcli::transition_blocks] Using mainnet spec
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z INFO  lcli::transition_blocks] Doing 10 runs
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z INFO  lcli::transition_blocks] Config { no_signature_verification: false, exclude_cache_builds: false, exclude_post_block_thc: false }
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.534442ms
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.727088ms
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.65126ms
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.520166ms
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.517495ms
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.659826ms
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.532312ms
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.485217ms
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.489904ms
[2024-11-25T05:16:37Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.495821ms

After

lcli transition-blocks --block-path /tmp/block-10472248.ssz --pre-state-path /tmp/pre-state-10472248.ssh --runs 10
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z INFO  lcli::transition_blocks] Using mainnet spec
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z INFO  lcli::transition_blocks] Doing 10 runs
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z INFO  lcli::transition_blocks] Config { no_signature_verification: false, exclude_cache_builds: false, exclude_post_block_thc: false }
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.156101ms
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.086956ms
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.085763ms
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.197391ms
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.111297ms
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.085961ms
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.089851ms
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.076389ms
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.082601ms
[2024-11-25T05:22:26Z DEBUG lcli::transition_blocks] SSZ decoding /tmp/block-10472248.ssz: 3.07679ms

[michaelsproul]

Paul the Optimiser returns 🤩

[michaelsproul]

omg I did not mean to close that, sorry!