Slow validation function blocking asyncio

[menaitm]

• Version: 6.2.0
• Python: 3.10

What was wrong?

After profiling my asyncio application, 2.5% of the event loop blocking is coming from the validate_address function in web3py:
https://github.com/ethereum/web3.py/blob/v6.2.0/web3/_utils/validation.py#L160

Inside this function, is_checksum_address() is the slowest call.

How can it be fixed?

Can the library provide flags to enable/disable expensive validation methods like this?

[DavidRomanovizc]

Hello, @menaitm, I think there are several possible options: you can try to write a faster algorithm that, for example, will use bit operations instead of calculating a hash function, or you can add a parameter to the validate_address function that will disable the is_checksum_address. If it necessary, I can take over the solution of this issue