Various functions throughout the codebase used it to grab settings. This
has to stop because I want to use them without reading the config file.
These functions can now be used without reading the config first:
* ethdb.NewLDBDatabase
* ethrepl.NewJSRepl
* vm.New
15ce2ab Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/PoC9' into PoC9
5970b09 add quadratic complexity and performance test
163fa03 more info
560b844 more info
a885549 more change
5fed708 one more tiny change
213a2b8 changed test format
c20e88b Merge branch 'PoC9' of github.com:ethereum/tests into PoC9
715ed17 Added first ethash test
e26a39f update blockchain tests to latest protocol changes
34baee5 poc9 vm tests
20550d9 update block chain test due to difficulty change
597b2b3 increase gasLimit on stateTests
8f573d3 update blockchain tests - 2048 bit logs bloom
06c90e6 typo
ef935fc extra data is hex now, for real
81ab5ad extra data is hex now
b0aeba8 update blockchain tests
f862faf add tx tests
618d724 update state tests
4a989f0 update blockchainII tests
ed56e82 add more vm tests
0417655 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/PoC9' into PoC9
1f1cf5d update block tests
76b5a8b Fix trie formats.
325dd6d Merge branch 'PoC9' of git://github.com/ethereum/tests into PoC9
a261c5b test3
1d3ab36 again
git-subtree-dir: tests/files
git-subtree-split: 15ce2ab8e22275e7aa93742cb5f8bc63e4e50db5
* Add blocktest cmd and support for block tests files in
tests/BlockTests , the launched node does not connect to
network, resets state with a genesis block from the test file
and starts the RPC API
