On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:45:48 PM Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Nils Schneider <n...@nilsschneider.net> wrote: > > I'd like to simplify the internal reference miner and remove all > > dependencies on cryptopp (it's the only place we use cryptopp instead of > > OpenSSL). > > > > Unfortunately, cryptopp is also used to calculate getwork "midstate". > > This field is redundant and the miner could easily calculate it from the > > blockheader so I'd like to remove it. > > > > Any thoughts? Where should such a change should be announced so all > > miners can be upgraded? > > I think one of the pools was already working on something like that? > I'm pretty sure it can be removed, and I'm pretty sure somebody has > already field-tested that guess.
I tested removing midstate myself, and found at least one miner (cpuminer IIRC) requires it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
