[hashcash] Re: some arm asm code (Re: Re: benchmarks...)

mixture of basic and arm assembler.  I am not sure what processor it
was on but he got 13,875 hashes/sec.

Maybe I can find the mail if I still have it see if it gives the
processor.

Archimedes machines are fairly rare (almost entirely a UK-only phenomenon, like the BBC before it), and the most probable models use a 40MHz ARM610 or earlier. I believe there was a model with a 200MHz StrongARM, but I don't think many were sold - my memory is hazy on whether it actually got to market.

Given a 40MHz ARM610, the performance demonstrated is OK but not outstanding. It's slower than a 486 would now be at the same clock speed, for example, and I know from personal experience that the ARM610 is *massively* faster than an equivalent 486. So, either he's using one of the older Arc models, or his code isn't very efficient. Or both.

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