slick-bitcoinrpc
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
doneResults
Values are best of 3, msec per loop
| Â | 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 |
