support stratum from dwarf?
nope.
RE: CPU usage: I'm considering rewriting the stratum client to be single threaded. I think that will reduce CPU load on simple CPUs.
RE: 1.0.9. I figured getting rid of the DAG would be a nice milestone to push the minor version number a notch

. 1.0.8 already runs on Pascal by the way. Just cmake with -DCOMPUTE=61 (CUDA 8 required) or use OpenCL. And use Linux for now to get a bit of hashrate.
RE: deadlock: have pushed new src/binary that may resolve the deadlock. Still running a test.