That's incorrect about small miners. You don't earn less on p2pool if you aren't finding shares often enough to cover every block, because your share's values are high enough to average it out long-term. For example, if your speed only allows you to get 1 share per week, the math works out that your share will earn you (on average) 1 week worth of coins for your hash rate. The proxy pool reduces this variance, but it doesn't pay more.
Also any plans for sha256 support?
I'd also like to suggest DGM as an alternate payment method.
Also any plans for sha256 support?
I'd also like to suggest DGM as an alternate payment method.Many smaller miners miss the payout share completely. They need to find the hard share AND it needs it to be in the payout window. If the p2pool doesn't find a block in the payout window, then they miss out entirely. The probability of missing out entirely is quite large for smaller miners.
sha256 support should be fairly easy to patch in, although I don't plan on implementing it yet.
I went with CPPSRB since it was easy to do