Cuckoo Cycle reduces the gap between commodity and custom hardware by being memory bound, making mining less centralized.
What is the time-memory ratio for algorithm that works with 1 million smaller RAM?
The best-known tmto algorithm is 20 million times slower with 1 millionth' the memory.
Of course, even being just 200 times slower means you will rarely find a block
if the block interval is just 100 proof attempts long...