[hashcash] Re: split blocks with -Z2 (Re: Re: hashcash-1.15 released)
- From: Jonathan Morton <chromi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:20:23 +0000
To make life easier for users, how about naming them -turbo, -normal,
and -compact? I don't think -normal stamps are visually "too big" for
most people, so that's another argument against trying to make
-compact
stamps faster. Especially if it would potentially make -turbo slower.
Yes tend to agree. Looks like there are enough cases were it will be
2x that it's not worth that much to optimize the other compact cases.
(Well to say that the other way around there are only 3 lengths were
you can speed it up -- the 123^4, 12^34, 1^234 above).
Right. So put in the documentation (if you haven't already) that -Z1
(or --normal) is recommended for most users, and -Z0 (or --turbo) is
for those who value speed over neatness, being about 15% faster in most
cases. The -Z2 (--compact) option is available but discouraged, for
those who are really anal about neatness and don't care about speed at
all, and will usually be a *lot* slower (2x or worse) than -Z1 or -Z0.
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