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clusterlin: keep track of active children (optimization)

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Authored by Pieter Wuille

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clusterlin: keep track of active children (optimization)

This means we can iterate over all active dependencies in a
cluster/chunk in O(ntx) time rather than O(ndeps) (*), as the number of
active dependencies in a set of transactions of size is at most ntx-1.

(*) Asymptotically, this is not actually true, as for large transaction
counts, iterating over a BitSet still scales with ntx. In practice
however, where BitSets are represented by a constant number of integers,
it holds.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This is a routine performance improvement inside Bitcoin Core's transaction-cluster linearization code. It replaces an O(number of dependencies) scan with an O(number of transactions) scan by maintaining a smaller 'active children' set. There is no user-visible behavior change, no network-facing change, and no security fix.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as normal code-quality/performance commit.

Security signals we found

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Why this scored 14/100

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Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 5/5
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