I am hoping that our developers begin merging the improved code into the open source code, so that my Linux rigs can also run at optimal speed. Not everyone can afford to donate 0.1 BTC, or $40-50 US.
I submitted a small speedup in the quark algo and lyra2v2 to github. Have a nice weekend linux users
we are having a nice weekend ... as will those that have the funds to outrun ANY optimizations that you make via windows sp ...
when you provoke - we react ...
i can ( and WILL ) upgrade to the level that thefarm outdoes any of the optimizations that your private miner does - simply by adding ONE extra card ...
why am i saying this now? ...
i have been moving house for the last couple of days - and finishing tomorrow ... in two months - thefarm gets relocated as well as my next house move ... this time to a more permanent location with options to extend thefarm to more than three locations ... which means i can focus a lot more on thefarm - the code - the coins - the miners - and the infrastructure that binds these miners together ( im working on the setup and distribution of miners to the system and the ease at which they can be created and destroyed - going back to my 'grid' roots ) ...
the point im making here is a simple one ... for miners like me - who are 'starting' to become larger farms - and the large farms themselves - its not an issue to grow to 'keep up' or surpass those around us ... even at the cost of a ( so called ) 'loss' of a small optimization on the windows private miners ... i donate to you and other devs ANYWAY ... no matter how small or big the donation may be ...
but to taunt us into submission by dangling the proverbial carrot of 'optimization by windows' - is basically excluding us as well as our donations in future and more importantly - our interest ... something which leaves a foul distaste in my mouth - let alone others in the game ...
this also means that the smaller miner is disadvantaged a great deal - as they not only have to come up with the money for the computer AND the cards AND the os ( windows is FAR from free - you pay for it when you buy the machine ... and to those who are using a pirated version - tut tut ) - but also the miner itself ... setting them up for a HUGE outlay before a single portion of btc is mined ...
no matter what respect i / we have for you and other devs ( and i / we do have a lot of respect ) - this course of planning will lead to more and more internalization of funds AND lack of donations in a massive way ... not the OTHER way that we have all been searching for - which is a GOOD way of donation to devs and a sustainable one ...
i have tried running windows miners in fedora 23 x64 - and they mostly fail ... and if they do work - whatever optimization you make in the miner is drowned out by the conversion of coding wine has to do - and it does degrade the hashrate ...
i would mine for you for 3months at a time at a percentage of the total mining hash using the optimized miners - as long as i got to compile it from source on MY machines ... this would be a hell of a lot more than 0.1btc or 0.5btc on thefarm ( all nvidia ) than small donations ... but you would rather internalize your optimizations and grow your own farm ... well - good for you ... and its your right ...
but to taunt linux users? ...
guess who will come out on top when the optimizations are crushed by internal coding done by the 'big' farms ... the devs here? ...
i applaud your entrepreneurial direction ... but no ...
there needs to be a better way ... and we need to find it ...
#crysx