[hashcash] Re: status of hashcash version 1?

>>>>> "Hubert" == Hubert Chan <hubert@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Morton <chromi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Hubert> [...]

Jonathan> (M68K support is still iffy - I need to get a GNU system
Jonathan> running on one of my old Macs, and write an assembler version
Jonathan> of the core to boot.  ARM, SPARC and other relatively
Jonathan> register-rich architectures with good compiler support are
Jonathan> expected to work similarly well to PowerPC, but are untested
Jonathan> as yet.)

Hubert> I have access to an Alpha that I can test out.  What do I need
Hubert> to do?

hy3chan@alpha0:~/hashcash-1.00$ ./fastmint_benchtest
    Rate  Name (* machine default)
    74870 ANSI Compact 1-pipe
    70191 ANSI Standard 1-pipe *
    42353 ANSI Compact 2-pipe
    30967 ANSI Standard 2-pipe
   ---    PowerPC Altivec Standard 1x4-pipe     (Not available on this machine)
Best minter: ANSI Compact 1-pipe (74870 hashes/sec)

This is on an Alpha EV4 (21064 -- I think the earliest type of Alpha),
approx. 200 MHz.

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