[hashcash] Re: 300Mhz amd k6-2
- From: Jonathan Morton <chromi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 02:00:54 +0100
It's actually almost amusing - of all the CPU architectures I've read
the documentation on this week, only the Intel machines seem to be
decoder-starved. Everything else is capable of saturating the
integer and load-store units using ordinary instructions, sometimes
several times over. And that includes the old 68040, another CISC
design.
heh this discussion make me wish I still had my old kim-1 (1-mhz 6502)
for a trial.
I've got three BBC Micros (2MHz 6502), an Acorn Electron (1MHz 6502),
and a Sinclair Spectrum +3 (Z80, possibly 8MHz) right here. I don't
think any of them will get very good performance in hashcash though.
:)
I think I calculated that the BBC might get an 8-bit token in about 5
seconds - we're not all that far away from getting one in 5
*microseconds* these days (think of a dual 3GHz G5). Progress, hey?
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