Why is cpuminer faster on my CPU than cgminer?

Wolf0

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Quote from: Ltcfaucet on March 29, 2013, 05:54:33 PM

I'll take ckolivas side on this one.

He doesn't want his hard work to throw red flags every time someone goes to run it. (Minerd)

He also doesn't want to dedicate his time to something that will be extinct within a couple months.

Instead of having him invest his time and energy into a pointless quest, invest your time and money in some up-to-date gear.

Keep on rockin' ckolivas!

Cgminer all the way!

CGMiner is based off of cpuminer, it's not like it'd really be all that difficult to just update the CPU mining code. But, it doesn't matter, I can run two miners.

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on March 29, 2013, 09:04:05 AM

Quote from: Wolf0 on March 29, 2013, 08:57:14 AM

You may as well remove CPU mining entirely.

Good idea.

That would solve two problems. Botnet users wouldn't use it (actually, if I was writing a trojan, I'd roll my own miner with both GPU and CPU optimized code, but meh), and legitimate users won't accidentally use an inferior CPU miner.

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Quote from: -ck on March 29, 2013, 02:07:22 AM

Quote from: -ck on March 03, 2013, 06:57:07 PM

No, as the maintenance burden isn't worth it.

And I want to do nothing to encourage botnet operators.

In fact I want CPU mining on cgminer to be slow so that it is not the prime binary choice to include with trojans.

But you're also harming legitimate users. You're crippling a feature so that bad people won't use your miner, forcing regular users to use cpuminer or let their CPU waste clock cycles. You may as well remove CPU mining entirely.

Ltcfaucet

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I'll take ckolivas side on this one.

He doesn't want his hard work to throw red flags every time someone goes to run it. (Minerd)

He also doesn't want to dedicate his time to something that will be extinct within a couple months.

Instead of having him invest his time and energy into a pointless quest, invest your time and money in some up-to-date gear.

Keep on rockin' ckolivas!

Cgminer all the way!

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Since you asked... When you don't have a GPU that mines and you don't have an FPGA and you need to work on code (as some of us do on our laptops) it's kinda hard without anything at all that hashes. It doesn't matter if it doesn't perform well in that instance.

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Gerald Davis

Quote from: Wolf0 on March 29, 2013, 08:57:14 AM

You may as well remove CPU mining entirely.

Good idea.

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: -ck on March 03, 2013, 06:57:07 PM

No, as the maintenance burden isn't worth it.

And I want to do nothing to encourage botnet operators.

In fact I want CPU mining on cgminer to be slow so that it is not the prime binary choice to include with trojans.

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Quote from: tycho on March 21, 2013, 05:17:09 PM

Quote from: counter on March 17, 2013, 04:00:47 PM

I want to start cpu mining litecoins and was suggested cgminer, should I reconsider and use cpuminer ?
Sorry to hijack but this is all new to me and would like to get started sooner then later. Seems u all know what ur talking about and would save me a ton on time.

Yes, cpuminer is considerably faster at mining litecoins than cgminer. That said, CPU mining is dead (that is, it's only worth it if you have free electricity).

Thanks alot for the reply that is all usefull info and very good to know tycho.

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Quote from: counter on March 17, 2013, 04:00:47 PM

I want to start cpu mining litecoins and was suggested cgminer, should I reconsider and use cpuminer ?
Sorry to hijack but this is all new to me and would like to get started sooner then later. Seems u all know what ur talking about and would save me a ton on time.

Yes, cpuminer is considerably faster at mining litecoins than cgminer. That said, CPU mining is dead (that is, it's only worth it if you have free electricity).

counter

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Time is on our side, yes it is!

I want to start cpu mining litecoins and was suggested cgminer, should I reconsider and use cpuminer ?
Sorry to hijack but this is all new to me and would like to get started sooner then later. Seems u all know what ur talking about and would save me a ton on time.

heybabit

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I'm CPU mining LTC until my main system is back up. My motherboard died recently Sad

Anyway, it's nice to supplement the GPU income, no point in wasting cycles.
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Are you willing to share your changes? I would mind messing around with this also.

grue

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why would you even cpu mine?

-ck

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Ruu \o/

No, as the maintenance burden isn't worth it.

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Because CPU mining with cgminer is deprecated, unsupported, and undeveloped.

Wolf0

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It was only the wind.

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