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Re: [ANN]: cpuminer-opt v3.5.0, open source optimized multi-algo CPU miner
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bookstime6
on 22/01/2017, 11:53:41 UTC
Is there a list of which of the algorithms use AVX and/or AVX2 on supported CPU's? The original post and readme say about 20 of the 40 support AVX2 but I can't find a list.

I'm mining XMR here, and I see the cryptonight algo doesn't support AVX. I assume it would be better if I mined a coin which has an algo which does take advantage of AVX instructions?

Code:
        **********  cpuminer-opt 3.5.0  ***********
     A CPU miner with multi algo support and optimized for CPUs
     with AES_NI and AVX extensions.
     BTC donation address: 12tdvfF7KmAsihBXQXynT6E6th2c2pByTT
     Forked from TPruvot's cpuminer-multi with credits
     to Lucas Jones, elmad, palmd, djm34, pooler, ig0tik3d,
     Wolf0, Jeff Garzik and Optiminer.

CPU:        Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz
CPU features: SSE2 AES AVX
SW built on Jan 22 2017 with GCC 5.4.0
SW features: SSE2 AES AVX
Algo features: SSE2 AES
Start mining with SSE2 AES