Scalability issues
Posted by Mike Hearn
Jul 24, 2012/09:18 UTC
The Satoshi client, a reference client for Bitcoin, is known for its use of pure reentrant mutexes model. This approach doesn't parallelize most operations, making chain download entirely single threaded. This has been noted by those familiar with the client's workings.
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