Currently the mempool isn't persisted across restarts. The historical argument against doing this is that it would make transactions immortal. Expiration now addresses that issue.

Without preserving the mempool node behavior changes drastically across restarts which complicates production use (e.g. mining overly small/low fee blocks) as well as development testing. The lack of retention also causes the loss of txn priority modifications made with prioritisetransaction which makes the API less reliable.

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extern CScript COINBASE_FLAGS;
extern CCriticalSection cs_main;
extern CTxMemPool mempool;
typedef boost::unordered_map<uint256, CBlockIndex*, BlockHasher> BlockMap;
extern BlockMap mapBlockIndex;
extern uint64_t nLastBlockTx;
extern uint64_t nLastBlockSize;
extern uint64_t nLastBlockWeight;
extern const std::string strMessageMagic;
extern CWaitableCriticalSection csBestBlock;
extern CConditionVariable cvBlockChange;
extern bool fImporting;
extern bool fReindex;
extern int nScriptCheckThreads;
extern bool fTxIndex;
extern bool fIsBareMultisigStd;
extern bool fRequireStandard;
extern bool fCheckBlockIndex;
extern bool fCheckpointsEnabled;
extern size_t nCoinCacheUsage;
extern CFeeRate minRelayTxFee;
extern CAmount maxTxFee;
extern int64_t nMaxTipAge;
extern bool fEnableReplacement;
extern CBlockIndex *pindexBestHeader;