[hashcash] Re: Hashcash performance improvements

> Eliminating the huge overhead that this reveals would result in a 50%
> performance boost, even with no CPU-specific optimisations.  (Probably
> less on x86, since the hashing function takes relatively longer there,
> but still significant.)

Excuse me while I eat my own words.  :)

I just finished writing the first round of "libfastmint" routines, and 
discovered that far from being only *slightly* improved, I've achieved 
a *doubling* of performance on x86.  I'm seeing a steady 2 million 
hashes per second on my 1.6GHz Athlon-XP, which is a long way up from 
last week.

When compiling with CodeWarrior, I now get 1 million hashes per second 
on my 667MHz G4, but only about 700K from GCC.  Further investigation 
is warranted - the GCC performance is only a minor improvement over the 
original code.

I'll bundle up the new code and transmit it later.

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