Thanks very much for that Jonathan, that's a great help. I had a result for a P2 400MHz of about 210,500 (hashcash v0.28, which I don't think uses fastmint either). So using your method of extrapolating down from that, works out at around 6,500 for the 486/25 (although the P2 architecture is different again to the MMX)
I'm going to take these upper (G5) and lower bounds and start plugging into a few breakeven estimates.... Although I think I'll multiply the 486 result by 4, to pretend that we had fastmint code working on it.
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