I've submitted a pull request with a 2-3% speedup in decred.
I may work on it more, if there is interest.
wow: in a world of private miners, I push a free speedup to a popular algo and don't even get considered...
so far for my opensource miner efforts.
Cheers!
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My donations tend to moon sooner than later...
Pallas,
It's not a lot for now, but here's 0.016 Btc from me.
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I'm going to fork tpruvots repo and pull in your pull and fiddle around also. Keep us updated if you do anymore / the other improvements you said. Will donate more once I sell some more coins here in a week or so.