This commit modifies the pre-computed table used to optimize the secp256k1
scalar multiplication to a string instead of a byte slice. This change
makes the compile more efficient since the Go compiler internally
represents bytes slices inefficiently.
This reduces the memory needed to compile btcec to 3MB versus the previous
40MB before this change.
In addition, it modifies the code which loads the pre-computed table to
deserialize directly into the table instead of into locals that are then
copied.
Fixes#297.
This commit contains various modifications for code and comment
consistency in the btcec package:
- Call out references at the top and reference them by their identifier in
the other comments
- Remove a TODO that no longer applies
- Add comments to the fields in the KoblitzCurve struct and reorder them
slightly
- Make comments wrap to 80
- Cleanup code that was far exceeding col 80 (only function declarations
typically do this)
- Extend block comments to use as much of the 80 cols as available
- Add a bit more explanation in a couple of places
- Update copyright year on secp256k1.go
- Fix a couple of typos in the comments
