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    "Needs rebase due to merge conflicts."
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    "Strong support from several contributors and maintainers for removing the pre-SegWit fixture and enabling modern script mix benchmarks (laanwj, yuvicc, Raimo33, hodlinator, 0xB10C)."
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  "summary": "Replaces the hardcoded ~1MB raw block 413567 binary fixture with a deterministic runtime block generator (`bench/block_generator.{h,cpp}`). The generator builds valid regtest blocks matching configurable script recipes (legacy, witness/taproot mixes) and seedable randomness. Benchmark call sites for block deserialization, checkblock, and block storage I/O are updated to use the generated blocks.",
  "problem": "Bitcoin Core's block benchmarks relied on a single 2016 block (413567) embedded directly in the repository. It predated SegWit v0 and Taproot, preventing benchmarks from reflecting modern transaction patterns, while updating by embedding newer blocks would add repo bloat without configurability.",
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    "Ensuring block difficulty allows fast nonce discovery during benchmark setup, addressed by switching chain params to regtest.",
    "Ensuring realistic script sigs, pubkeys, and witness commitments, iteratively refined with review suggestions from hodlinator.",
    "CI failure due to a floating-point probability assertion in `CreateScriptFactory`, promptly resolved by the author."
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     "note": "Flagged an assertion failure in CI"
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     "note": "Concept ACK, highlighting reduced repo bloat and extensibility for future benchmarks"
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     "evidence": "2025-12-23: \"When experimenting with changing the scripts I hit block size limits with just 2000 transactions due to large scripts. It seems more precise to have rec.tx_occupancy_limit between 0.0-1.0 and just fill up the block with transactions until the serialized size exceeds that fraction of the maximum size.\"",
     "resolution_evidence": "2026-02-16: \"The occupancy limit would be a cool solution to make sure this always generates a valid block, but it's not a real property of the blocks... I have added a block_generator_multiple_seed_sanity to help us discover these invalid setups anyway.\"",
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     "reviewer": "hodlinator",
     "reason": "Stated 'Strong problem ACK - It's quite bad that we are only benchmarking against a pre-segwit block'",
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     "reviewer": "0xB10C",
     "reason": "Noted runtime generation takes far less repo space and avoids having to add new static blocks periodically",
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     "reason": "Helpful to run benchmarks against up-to-date transaction data",
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     "reviewer": "laanwj",
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    "hodlinator (2026-02-11): 'Strong problem ACK - It's quite bad that we are only benchmarking against a pre-segwit block.'",
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      "note": "Concept ACK, but noted block generator could exceed block size limits with large scripts"
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      "note": "asked if PR should be drafted while CI assertion failed"
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