[tor-dev] Stem descriptor lazy loading

[Damian Johnson]

I've been wanting to do this for years. Just a quick announcement that Stem
now lazy-loads descriptors, giving it a nice performance boost...

  Server descriptors: 27% faster
  Extrainfo descriptors: 71% faster
  Microdescriptors: 43% faster
  Consensus: 37% faster

For details see...

  https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/commit/?id=3dac7c5

Note that descriptor validation is now opt-in rather than opt-out, so if
you'd prefer validation over performance you'll now need to include
'validate = True'.

This is a pretty big overhaul so please let me know if you run into any issues.

Cheers! -Damian