[hashcash] Re: Low end benchmarks

> Following on from the recent posts about minting speed on a 486, here is
> the benchmark output from a Cyrix 5x86 100MHz.  Not quite the same thing,
> but back when I had access to a 486/100MHz as well they were almost
> identical in performance so this should be a fair guide:
>
>
>     Rate  Name (* machine default)
>     32266 ANSI Compact 1-pipe *
>     28576 ANSI Standard 1-pipe
>     25980 ANSI Compact 2-pipe
>      4606 ANSI Standard 2-pipe
>    ---    PowerPC Altivec Standard 1x4-pipe   (Not available on this
> machine)
> Best minter: ANSI Compact 1-pipe (32266 hashes/sec)

Thanks for that Malcolm.

I was trying out some speed tests tonight on a 2GHz P4 running Knoppix 3.6
(boot CD). I was kind of expecting to see better performance.

I'm using the source from
http://www.hashcash.org/source/current/hashcash-1.03/hashcash-1.03pr5.tgz

When I do 'make 386', I'm getting;

knoppix@ttyp0[hashcash-1.03]$ hashcash -s
collisions = 36800
speed: 368000 collision tests per second

On 'make x86-mmx', I get; speed: 375000 collision tests per second

'make generic' gives me the best performance at 463,000 tests per second.

Am I missing something?

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