On Tue, 18 May 2010, Kolbj?rn Barmen wrote:

> However, the speed is not really that impressive yet

That is because they use FPGAs (cheap in small quantities, slow, 
reprogrammable) and not ASICs (cheap in large quantities, fast, not 
reprogrammable). The speed is actually better than the real thing (cycle 
for cycle).

Finn


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