[hashcash] Re: status of hashcash version 1?

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Morton <chromi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[...]

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.)

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

[...]

Jonathan> - Run the full benchmark if a previous-result store is
Jonathan> missing, invalid, or out of date.  This takes advantage of the
Jonathan> fact that hardware usually changes infrequently.

I would just run the benchmark when hashcash gets installed or
upgraded, and allow the user to re-benchmark manually.

Jonathan> However, it breaks slightly if the same user runs multiple
Jonathan> hardware configurations from a single filesystem, as I do (to
Jonathan> some extent) with my Athlons and Pentium-MMX.

Under UNIX-like systems, you can store the results in /etc/, which
generally isn't shared between systems.  I guess under Windows,
C:\Windows generally isn't shared.

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