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Re: Mine YAC on gpu :)
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tacotime
on 13/05/2013, 11:41:15 UTC
Quote from: xibeijan on May 13, 2013, 11:37:56 AM
Quote from: tacotime on May 13, 2013, 11:35:57 AM
Quote from: evilscoop on May 13, 2013, 11:01:00 AM
you cant atm...

yac uses scrypt-jane, and is/was designed to be cpu mined only..

If you could, it would be the end of yac, as its core ethos would be pointless

If you think a GPU miner can't be coded for it, you're mistaken.  Both chacha20 and keccak have faster throughputs than salsa20 and sha2-256, and the value of N right now should provide extremely good GPU performance.

Except N will change _tomorrow_ and then what?

Doesn't matter -- because of the TMTO tradeoff and higher GPU memory bandwidth I doubt you'll see a point where GPU implementation is slower.  Once you have the GPU implementation adjusting it for higher N values will be trivial.