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generateDatasetItem

Source (upstream pre-purge) Current
File consensus/ethash/algorithm.go algorithm.go
Symbol generateDatasetItem generateDatasetItem
Ref dde2da0ef~1 etc/v1.17.3-full-node

3-way merge — purge → getc ← upstream

pre-purge
// generateDatasetItem combines data from 256 pseudorandomly selected cache nodes,
// and hashes that to compute a single dataset node.
func generateDatasetItem(cache []uint32, index uint32, keccak512 hasher) []byte {
// Calculate the number of theoretical rows (we use one buffer nonetheless)
rows := uint32(len(cache) / hashWords)
// Initialize the mix
mix := make([]byte, hashBytes)
binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(mix, cache[(index%rows)*hashWords]^index)
for i := 1; i < hashWords; i++ {
binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(mix[i*4:], cache[(index%rows)*hashWords+uint32(i)])
}
keccak512(mix, mix)
// Convert the mix to uint32s to avoid constant bit shifting
intMix := make([]uint32, hashWords)
for i := 0; i < len(intMix); i++ {
intMix[i] = binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(mix[i*4:])
}
// fnv it with a lot of random cache nodes based on index
for i := uint32(0); i < datasetParents; i++ {
parent := fnv(index^i, intMix[i%16]) % rows
fnvHash(intMix, cache[parent*hashWords:])
}
// Flatten the uint32 mix into a binary one and return
for i, val := range intMix {
binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(mix[i*4:], val)
}
keccak512(mix, mix)
return mix
}
core-geth validation — **Identical** ✅ | | | |---|---| | File | [`algorithm.go`](https://github.com/etclabscore/core-geth/blob/v1.12.20/consensus/ethash/algorithm.go) | | Symbol | `generateDatasetItem` | | Ref | `v1.12.20` |

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