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title: 'Re: 1.3 almost ready'
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date: 2010-06-27 15:30:13 UTC
original: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=199.msg1834#msg1834
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# Re: 1.3 almost ready

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Re: 1.3 almost ready
June 27, 2010, 03:30:13 PM

MinGW still only has good old stable 3.4.5.  There's not much reason for them to update it.

When I looked at the 3.4.5 compiled SHA disassembly, I couldn't see any room for improvement at all.  I can't imagine how 8% more could be squeezed out of it.  Is it possible Windows could have 8% more overhead?  Not making system calls or anything, just plain busy computational code, could task switching and other housekeeping operations take away that much?
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