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Re: [XPM] [ANN] Primecoin High Performance
by
mikaelh
on 10/08/2013, 08:04:42 UTC
It seems that 32-bit version of hp9 is still considerably slower than 64-bit version, at least on win7 x86 and x64 respectively. The difference is like 0.26cpd vs 0.38cpd on i3-540@3.6.
 mikaelh, are you going to do something about it? Would be great.

There's not much that can be done about it. I think it comes down to modular exponentiation being faster on x64.

Also as I have said before, haveged is probably not useful for mining. I don't see why the mining process would need entropy. It shouldn't really be detrimental either except for the fact that a few CPU cycles are being wasted.