This has two effects: most importantly, it avoids the problem where
lightningd creates a 800MB JSON blob in response to listchannels,
which causes OOM on the Raspberry Pi (our previous max allocation was
832MB). This is because lightning-cli can start draining the JSON
while we're filling the buffer, so we end up with a max allocation of
68MB.
But despite being less efficient (multiple queries to gossipd), it
actually speeds things up due to the parallelism:
MCP with -O3 -flto before vs after:
-listchannels_sec:8.980000-9.330000(9.206+/-0.14)
+listchannels_sec:7.500000-7.830000(7.656+/-0.11)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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