Quote from: satoshi on 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?
Maybe best to look at the 4.4.3 compiled disassembly as well and see if there are any differences.
On a related note, is the thing compilable by Visual C++? I’m inclined to give it a try when I get around to it.
Dimitri