Speed up big chainspec json(~1.5 GB) load (#10137)

* Speed up chainspec json load

* Update client/chain-spec/src/chain_spec.rs

* Update client/chain-spec/src/chain_spec.rs

* Update client/chain-spec/src/chain_spec.rs

* Load the chainspec through `mmap`

Co-authored-by: icodezjb <icodezjb@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Bastian Köcher <bkchr@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jan Bujak <jan@parity.io>
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icodezjb
2021-11-01 20:58:18 +08:00
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parent 710265a4f8
commit 7f1bff9462
3 changed files with 25 additions and 4 deletions
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@@ -285,10 +285,20 @@ impl<G, E: serde::de::DeserializeOwned> ChainSpec<G, E> {
/// Parse json file into a `ChainSpec`
pub fn from_json_file(path: PathBuf) -> Result<Self, String> {
// We mmap the file into memory first, as this is *a lot* faster than using
// `serde_json::from_reader`. See https://github.com/serde-rs/json/issues/160
let file = File::open(&path)
.map_err(|e| format!("Error opening spec file `{}`: {}", path.display(), e))?;
// SAFETY: `mmap` is fundamentally unsafe since technically the file can change
// underneath us while it is mapped; in practice it's unlikely to be a problem
let bytes = unsafe {
memmap2::Mmap::map(&file)
.map_err(|e| format!("Error mmaping spec file `{}`: {}", path.display(), e))?
};
let client_spec =
json::from_reader(file).map_err(|e| format!("Error parsing spec file: {}", e))?;
json::from_slice(&bytes).map_err(|e| format!("Error parsing spec file: {}", e))?;
Ok(ChainSpec { client_spec, genesis: GenesisSource::File(path) })
}
}