Hypotheses are interesting, but does anyone have any comparative performance-related data? It's not too hard for me to imagine that the compiler writers and maintainers might actually be able to do a better job with their 64-bit code optimizers if they have less work to do otherwise.
Let me also go out on a limb and suggest the whole idea of cryptocurrency mining (and consumption of nation-level quantities of electricity, and growing) is a huge(r) problem. :-( -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE, Multi-Geography E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
