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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: [XPM] A GPU miner for XPM is around the corner? (via CUMP).
by
AstroKev
on 18/07/2013, 01:21:48 UTC
Here is a few year old example where an implementation of ECM was developed and compared against the standard CPU and the result was roughly 2x faster.  I know we're not talking about ECM here but again it's suggestive of what one might expect.

http://eecm.cr.yp.to/gpuecm-20090127.pdf

modular arithmetic is very easy to implement with the four basic arithmetic functions, so I'm not sure what the holdup is around that?