From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr•org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Deprecating "midstate" in getwork?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:54:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109272354.02695.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+8xBpfwsajD1J-GRMLgqQwop1T0n=4jqtfQmtBoRvj3rzcY7w@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:45:48 PM Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Nils Schneider <nils@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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-28 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 19:42 Nils Schneider
2011-09-28 3:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-09-28 3:54 ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2011-09-29 10:23 ` John Smith
2011-09-29 11:40 ` Nils Schneider
2011-09-29 11:48 ` Stefan Thomas
2011-09-29 12:49 ` solar
2011-10-02 7:52 ` John Smith
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