On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > With the sipaspeed patches it seems ECDSA can be processed on modern cores > at something like 20,000 signatures per second. So it'd take a bit over 4 > seconds to process all of them (cpu time). > Sorry brainfart, s/cores/cpus/. I think the 20k/sec was with full usage of a hyperthreaded quad core CPU.