Aggregate baker's highwatermarks I/Os
Context
This MR improves the baker performances by reducing the number of on-disk writes when registering the consensus votes high watermarks. There is now only one update (i.e. read the file, decode the file, update the structure, write the structure in the file) instead of n
where n
is the number of consensus-vote producing bakers.
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