Removed readReverse() precondition for a 2x block parsing improvement.

benchmark/serialization.js

@@ -17,12 +17,19 @@ async.series([
   function(next) {
 
     var buffers = [];
+    var hashBuffers = [];
     console.log('Generating Random Test Data...');
     for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
+
+      // uint64le
       var br = new bitcore.encoding.BufferWriter();
       var num = Math.round(Math.random() * 10000000000000);
       br.writeUInt64LEBN(new bitcore.crypto.BN(num));
       buffers.push(br.toBuffer());
+
+      // hashes
+      var data = bitcore.crypto.Hash.sha256sha256(new Buffer(32));
+      hashBuffers.push(data);
     }
 
     var c = 0;
@@ -38,10 +45,23 @@ async.series([
       c++;
     }
 
+    var reversed;
+
+    function readReverse() {
+      if (c >= hashBuffers.length) {
+        c = 0;
+      }
+      var buf = hashBuffers[c];
+      var br = new bitcore.encoding.BufferReader(buf);
+      reversed = br.readReverse();
+      c++;
+    }
+
     console.log('Starting benchmark...');
 
     var suite = new benchmark.Suite();
     suite.add('bufferReader.readUInt64LEBN()', readUInt64LEBN, {maxTime: maxTime});
+    suite.add('bufferReader.readReverse()', readReverse, {maxTime: maxTime});
     suite
       .on('cycle', function(event) {
         console.log(String(event.target));

lib/util/buffer.js

@@ -152,7 +152,6 @@ module.exports = {
    * @return {Buffer}
    */
   reverse: function reverse(param) {
-    $.checkArgumentType(param, 'Buffer', 'param');
     var ret = new buffer.Buffer(param.length);
     for (var i = 0; i < param.length; i++) {
       ret[i] = param[param.length - i - 1];

test/util/buffer.js

@@ -152,10 +152,5 @@ describe('buffer utils', function() {
       original[1].should.equal(reversed[1]);
       original[2].should.equal(reversed[0]);
     });
-    it('checks the argument type', function() {
-      expect(function() {
-        BufferUtil.reverse('invalid');
-      }).to.throw(errors.InvalidArgumentType);
-    });
   });
 });