Return ReadOnlyValidator
slice from state and use it when possible
#13782
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What type of PR is this?
Other
What does this PR do? Why is it needed?
Whenever we need validators from the state, we call
Validators()
which returns a copy of the state's validators. But we don't need mutable objects when all we do is perform read operations. Returning a slice ofReadOnlyValidator
wrappers is many times faster and doesn't require making copies.What this PR entails:
ReadOnlyValidators()
state method that returns a slice of read only wrappers over the state's validatorsValidators()
to the new method whenever possibleconsensus-types
module to avoid circular dependencies in some cases