Re: stamp speeds on new hardware

http://www.digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=32951-1

Jonathan Morton wrote:
>>> That is one core on the athlon64 so a single athlon64 x2 with both
>>> cores slightly outperforms the 2Ghz G5.
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>>
>> Remind me to re-run this on my G5 using a version compiled with  GCC4, 
>> if possible.  I've found with other programs that GCC4 makes  a huge 
>> difference to the G5, though much less on G3/G4.  My G5  (thanks IBM) 
>> has two 2.3GHz CPUs, so should easily beat the A64 again.
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> 
> I just completed a 40-bit test using old 1.08 binaries.  A 40-bit  stamp 
> was successfully minted in under 7.5 hours (about half of  expected), 
> using both CPUs of my 2.3GHz G5.
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> hashcash token: 1:40:051222:[email protected]::Cu2iqc4SmotZ7MRR:0000214c3J
> 
> Now who said Macs were slow?
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