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Package executor
This package deals with state management for P-Chain blocks.
*Block
The *Block type implements the linear.Block interface.
This is the type that the platformvm deals with when it uses linear.Blocks.
*Block wraps a blocks.Block and a manager.
The *Block itself doesn't have any state.
The state is all held by the manager, and the *Block acts upon the manager to get/set the state.
Therefore, we don't need to worry about deduplicating *Block instances.
The platformvm uses the manager to create blocks and query block state because
the manager.GetBlock returns a stateful block (*Block), whereas state.State's GetStatelessBlock returns a blocks.Block.
Visitors
This package contains three implementations of blocks.Visitor: verifier, acceptor and rejector.
These implement the logic for verifying, accepting and rejecting blocks.
Each implementation has a reference to a shared *backend, which maintains state, etc.
(The manager has a reference to the shared *backend as well.)