Store Space Efficiency

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Finding 030 - Store Space Efficiency

ID	030
Finding	Store Space Efficiency
Severity	0 - Informational
Description	Store could favor storing information using uint64 (height) as key, and using the hash->height as a reverse index.This would yield lower key sizes, in fact:Storing uint64 as string:- best case: 1 byte- worst case: 20 byte (for 2^64-1)Storing hash (hex(sha256)):- constant 64bytes
Recommendation	Depends on access patterns. But consider refactoring storage of blocks and commits to use height as the primary key, and then retain an index (hash->height) to do the reverse mapping.
Code References	rollkit/store/store.go Line 212 in eccdd0f func getBlockKey(hash types.Hash) string {