From 177d2e7c982877ec12b1051137764fdba10a084c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tevador Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 14:13:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Minor fixes in readme --- README.md | 13 +++++-------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f65c218..977bd29 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,5 @@ # RandomX -RandomX is a proof-of-work (PoW) algorithm that is optimized for general-purpose CPUs. RandomX uses random code execution (hence the name) together with several memory-hard techniques to achieve the following goals: - -* Prevent the development of a single-chip [ASIC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit) -* Minimize the efficiency advantage of specialized hardware compared to a general-purpose CPU +RandomX is a proof-of-work (PoW) algorithm that is optimized for general-purpose CPUs. RandomX uses random code execution (hence the name) together with several memory-hard techniques to minimize the efficiency advantage of specialized hardware. ## Overview @@ -23,7 +20,7 @@ Design notes available in [design.md](doc/design.md). RandomX is written in C++11 and builds a static library with a C API provided by header file [randomx.h](src/randomx.h). Minimal API usage example is provided in [api-example1.c](src/tests/api-example1.c). The reference code includes a `benchmark` executable for testing. -### Ubuntu/Debian +### Linux Build dependencies: `make` and `gcc` (minimum version 4.8, but version 7+ is recommended). @@ -57,7 +54,7 @@ Preliminary performance of selected CPUs using the optimal number of threads (T) |CPU|RAM|OS|AES|Fast mode|Light mode| |---|---|--|---|---------|--------------| -AMD Ryzen 7 1700|16 GB DDR4|Ubuntu 16.04|hardware|4090 H/s (8T)|620 H/s (16T)| +AMD Ryzen 7 1700|16 GB DDR4|Ubuntu 16.04|hardware|4100 H/s (8T)|620 H/s (16T)| Intel Core i7-8550U|16 GB DDR4|Windows 10|hardware|1700 H/s (4T)|350 H/s (8T)| Intel Core i3-3220|2 GB DDR3|Ubuntu 16.04|software|-|145 H/s (4T)| Raspberry Pi 3|1 GB DDR2|Ubuntu 16.04|software|-|2.0 H/s (4T) †| @@ -80,9 +77,9 @@ Efficient mining requires more than 2 GiB of memory, which is difficult to hide RandomX uses only operations that are guaranteed to give correctly rounded results by the [IEEE 754](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754) standard: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and square root. Special care is taken to avoid corner cases such as NaN values or denormals. The reference implementation has been validated on the following platforms: -* x86+SSE2 (32-bit, little-endian) +* x86 (32-bit, little-endian) * x86-64 (64-bit, little-endian) -* ARMv7+NEON (32-bit, little-endian) +* ARMv7+VFPv3 (32-bit, little-endian) * ARMv8 (64-bit, little-endian) * PPC64 (64-bit, big-endian)