What is bloombits?

Question

I'm syncing my node with geth and I used the light mode.

>start geth --syncmode "light"

Then a parameter type="bloombits" appeared. What is bloombits?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 18 '17 at 13:57

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At its simplest, from doc.go:

// Package bloombits implements bloom filtering on batches of data.
package bloombits

Of interest: How does Ethereum make use of bloom filters? (In short, to allow efficient searching over event logs.)

One step further back: Bloom Filter (Wikipedia)

answered Dec 18 '17 at 13:57

Richard Horrocks

Great I get it, so it's only used when light mode? That would be logic since it needs less memory? – Moisés Briseño Estrello Dec 18 '17 at 20:05
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It's not just specific to light mode, no :-) – Richard Horrocks Dec 20 '17 at 20:05

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