I have a question for WeTradeCoins. I am using the Cudaminer which Christian (cbuchner1) wrote to mine LTC on weminltc.com. Cudaminer was written based on "pooler-cpuminer 2.2.3" and only supports getwork. Becuase wemneltc only supports stratum I use the stratumn-proxy.exe recommended on wemineltc.com.
stratum_proxy.exe -o us.wemineltc.com -p 80 -pa scrypt -nm
It seems that no matter I disable or enable longpoll with Cudaminer (there is a command line switch) and Cudaminer mines through stratumn-proxy just fine -- the proxy can handle it either way. My question is, if longpoll is disabled on the miner, will the stratumn-proxy (and the server at wemineltc.com) run more efficiently?
Stratum servers don't use long polling -- they send broadcast messages to miners at any time. When you use the proxy, all the overhead associated with getwork long polling is on the client side (i.e., your machine). The difference between enabling/disabling long polling for the few ports cudaminer would open on your local system for long polling is probably no more than a few microseconds of cpu time every so often.