Introduction I’m working on a Bitcoin library on my own time, and as I work through it I want its performance characteristics to be good, so I’m going to do some profiling along the way and look for low-hanging fruits. I thought I’d share my first stab at this. For context, what I’m working on today is a Base58-encoding module in F♯. I wrote it while learning how Base58 works and how it’s used in Bitcoin, and performance wasn’t at the forefront of my mind.
