Quote from: iamnotback on June 23, 2016, 03:58:09 PM

Quote from: jl777 on June 23, 2016, 03:23:30 PM

http://250bpm.com/blog:8 give some reasons.

It is an interesting point, but the performance improvements he desires can be accomplished with encapsulation by employing polymorphic types (storing a header of type H that the Person type can't operate on because it only knows it is an H but the container collection can) but of course this binds the instances (e.g. of Person) to the type of H they were constructed with so they can't be added to other types of containers that require another type for H. But his C solution also makes this conflation.

The reason to prefer C over C++ is that C has a smaller surface area of base concepts whereas C++ has everything and the kitchen sink in its 1500 page manual.

When it comes to performance, a skilled C programmer can beat an average C++ programmer who utilizes the STL. So jl777 wants to understand the algorithms well enough so that he can create a C implementation. This seems to be a worthwhile activity as it will make the Zcash PoW algorithm accessible to C programmers who hate C++ of which there are probably many.

I would bet that if you can write down the algorithms in a simple pseudo code which he can easily translate to C, then I bet he'd probably pay you the bounty.

code clarity is the most important, but it needs to use the optimized method and also be able to actually create valid solution sets

basically a drop in replacement for the existing zcash miner