Replying to Avatar Antonius Magnuss

Interesting. So since there is no ASIC, does that mean there is some kind of kernel bypass implemented in software?

It’s funny you mention that because there’s other hardware I’ve seen this happen to. Removing the reliance on an ASIC and doing it mostly in software (leveraging kernel bypass/user space since forwarding in kernel is slow), and using the CPU more heavily, especially the cache.

To the other points, thanks! I’ll check it out
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mcneb10 1y ago

While I’m not really sure how mining interfaces with the kernel, I do know that xmrig (the best RandomX miner) runs faster as root because it can change kernel CPU and memory paging settings. The RandomX hash algorithm is specifically designed to run best on CPUs, so that anyone trying to make an ASIC would basically have to make a pseudo-CPU which is very expensive. These ASICS do exist but they thankfully don’t get better efficiency over the best CPUs yet from what I’ve heard.

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