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Re: [ANN?] Bytecoin (not a Bitcoin fork) + Giveaway
by
tromp
on 15/04/2014, 12:56:02 UTC
I'll stick with         CryptoNight      vs      Cuckoo Cycle, assuming a size 2^{32} for the latter
memory                2MB                         4GB
memoy-hardness   solid                         can run twice as slow in 3GB, or 50% faster in 6GB
                                                          hardness hypothesized; not provable
parallellizable        not                          at least 20+ threads (probably less than 100)
access pattern       random                     random
latency                 low (cache)                high (main memory)
verification            slow                         instant
%computation       probably > 90%          33%
%memory             probably < 10%          67%

Can you explain what latency means in this particular case? I mean I know it's some kind of delay between something but what stands for "something" here?

Latency is the time between the start of a memory access instruction, and it's end,
when the value has been retrieved, and is available for use.