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### Integer operations
RandomX uses all primitive integer operations that preserve entropy: addition, subtraction, multiplication, XOR and shift.
RandomX uses all primitive integer operations that preserve entropy: addition, subtraction, multiplication, XOR and rotation.
The IADD_RC and IMUL_9C instructions utilize the address calculation logic of CPUs and can be performed in a single instruction by most CPUs.
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The ISWAP_R instruction can be performed efficiently by CPUs that utilize register renaming.
The COND instructions use the common condition flags that are supported by most CPU architectures. Conditional execution is used to avoid branches.
The COND instructions add branches to RandomX programs and also use the common condition flags that are supported by most CPU architectures.
### Memory access
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#### Cache
The Cache, which is used for light verification and Dataset construction, is 16 times smaller than the Dataset. To keep a constant area-time product, each Dataset item is constructed by 16 Cache accesses (16 * 256 MiB = 1 * 4 GiB).
The Cache, which is used for light verification and Dataset construction, is 8 times smaller than the Dataset. To keep a constant area-time product, each Dataset item is constructed by 8 Cache accesses (8 * 256 MiB = 1 * 2 GiB).
Because 256 MiB is small enough to be included on-chip, RandomX uses a high-latency mixing function (SquareHash) which defeats the benefits of using low-latency memory for mining in tradeoff mode.