[LOCKED] cpuminer-opt v3.12.3, open source optimized multi-algo CPU miner

[joblo]

cpuminer-opt v3.5.3 is released.

Timetravel +16%
Xevan +3%
Qubit +12%

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1326803.0

[integrale]

Great Job Joblo  

big thank´s ,  increase on i7 2600  +70k/h  means atm up to 475K/h  for this old thing. at Timetravel  , others not tested yet

btw  may i ask you why i cant use the avx ?  is that a limitation of Windows , cpu works only with the sse41 , or corei7 exe´s

Processors Information
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Processor 1         ID = 0
   Number of cores      4 (max
   Number of threads   8 (max 16)
   Name         Intel Core i7 2600
   Codename      Sandy Bridge
   Specification      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
   Package (platform ID)   Socket 1155 LGA (0x1)
   CPUID         6.A.7
   Extended CPUID      6.2A
   Core Stepping      D2
   Technology      32 nm
   TDP Limit      95.0 Watts
   Tjmax         98.0 °C
   Core Speed      3492.9 MHz
   Multiplier x Bus Speed   35.0 x 99.8 MHz
   Stock frequency      3400 MHz
   Instructions sets   MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX
   L1 Data cache      4 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
   L1 Instruction cache   4 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
   L2 cache      4 x 256 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
   L3 cache      8 MBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
   FID/VID Control      yes

[My9bot]

cpuminer-opt v3.5.3 is released.

Timetravel +16%
Xevan +3%
Qubit +12%

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1326803.0

Timetravel benchmark is broken

[joblo]

cpuminer-opt v3.5.3 is released.

Timetravel +16%
Xevan +3%
Qubit +12%

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1326803.0

Timetravel benchmark is broken

It works for me, need more info.

[Lafu]

cpuminer-opt v3.5.3 is released.

Timetravel +16%
Xevan +3%
Qubit +12%

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1326803.0

Timetravel benchmark is broken

It works for me, need more info.

Nice Work bro!

[joblo]

Nice Work bro!

Thanks.

[chrysophylax]

hi all ...

ive finally got my old profile back ...

tanx to cyrus ( bct mod ) and a few others - i now have full access to my old profile ... so will be using this one as much as possible from now on ...

the 'crysx' profile will still be in use - but will be only when necessary - not as my standard ...

a lot to sort out now ...

update ...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1563601.msg17653092#msg17653092 ...

#crysx

[oldDIN]

Instability on the amd fx-6300, 50-52 accept on and off ((
I can see 3.5.4 is tested, can it be stable

[joblo]

Instability on the amd fx-6300, 50-52 accept on and off ((
I can see 3.5.4 is tested, can it be stable

No.

[integrale]

miner3@miner3-HP-500B:~$ cd cpuminer-opt-3.5.3
miner3@miner3-HP-500B:~/cpuminer-opt-3.5.3$ ./cpuminer

         **********  cpuminer-opt 3.5.3  ***********
     A CPU miner with multi algo support and optimized for CPUs
     with AES_NI and AVX extensions.
     BTC donation address: 12tdvfF7KmAsihBXQXynT6E6th2c2pByTT
     Forked from TPruvot's cpuminer-multi with credits
     to Lucas Jones, elmad, palmd, djm34, pooler, ig0tik3d,
     Wolf0, Jeff Garzik and Optiminer.

[2017-01-30 10:45:40] FAIL: algo_gate registration failed, unknown algo (null).

miner3@miner3-HP-500B:~/cpuminer-opt-3.5.3$

conf:

{
   "_comment1" : "Any long-format command line argument ",
   "_comment2" : "may be used in this JSON configuration file",

   "api-bind" : "127.0.0.1:4048",

   "url" : "stratum+tcp://fiber.ccminer.org:3555",
   "user" : "MTRLHnKQpQby52DHtCYHsXFeJbwCsdf7Wx",
   "pass" : "x,c=MAC",

   "algo" : "timetravel",
   "threads" : 2,
   "cpu-priority" : 0,
   "cpu-affinity" : -1,

   "benchmark" : false,
   "debug" : false,
   "protocol": false,
   "quiet" : false
}

[joblo]

Code:

cpuminer --help
[...]
  -c, --config=FILE     load a JSON-format configuration file

[integrale]

Code:

cpuminer --help
[...]
  -c, --config=FILE     load a JSON-format configuration file

thx a lot , works now , step by step increasing against win version +7k/h   woow old crap digging
Xubuntu 16.04 LTS @ Core2 Duo E6600 @ 83k/h
                                                     E6700 @ 89k/h
Eeeeeennndlich      last machine compiled   uffff  !!!!

CPU:         Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
CPU features: SSE2 AES AVX
SW built on Jan 30 2017 with GCC 5.4.0
SW features: SSE2 AES AVX
Algo features: SSE2 AES AVX AVX2
Start mining with SSE2 AES AVX

@  ~520 k/h        BIG thx for the great work to Joblo & Epsylon3 , my race is over for now

[joblo]

Tired of seeing all those compiler warnings from algo-gate-api.c? Well the're going away. I found the
way to supress them for selected code segments.

#pragma GCC diagnostic push
#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wimplicit-function-declaration"
// ignore these warnings
[...]
// until here
#pragma GCC diagnostic pop

These warnings get displayed because algos don't, are for convenience are not required, to declare
their registration functions in base code.

On another note I still hate c pointer arithmetic. Pointer arithmetic should always use byte offsets,
arrays indexes scale to the target size. p+n should always have the same result regardless of
the size of p's target. I wasted the better part of a day fighting with a problem that turned out to
be bad pointer arithmetic.

[joblo]

Since no one has reported it It's probably not a big issue but I have just discovered x11evo is broken
in the latest release. If you have a working version don't upgrade until this is fixed.

It works in 3.5.1, broken in 3.5.2.

Edit: I've got a fix plus a surprise. I still need to finish the other stuff I was working on before the next release.

[Epsylon3]

you can also toggle warnings per kind with CFLAGS :

-Wimplicit-function-declaration vs -Wno-implicit-function-declaration

but they are there for a good reason in general

[joblo]

you can also toggle warnings per kind with CFLAGS :

-Wimplicit-function-declaration vs -Wno-implicit-function-declaration

but they are there for a good reason in general

Agreed, I didn't want to disable them everywhere, just the block of code where I call the
registration functions because these implicit declarations aren't going away. I actually added some includes to
remove some of the others. Most of the remaining warnings are due to the optimized macros.
I'm going to have to do something about those.

[joblo]

I'm doing something different with v3.5.4, I've submitted the code to git but haven't
built the binaries yet. There are two reasons, it's quicker and this release has a higher risk
of problems that I want to shake out.

v3.5.4 contains small code changes to many algos that will take forever to test. I'l wait about a
day for problem reports before making the formal release.

I'd also like confirmation on improvements, it's hard to tell when the improvement is well within
the margin of error.

- x11evo fixed (broken in v3.5.2) and optimized 23% faster
- Small improvements of 1% to 3% on many algos including timetravel,
   xevan and cryptonight.
- More code cleanup and compiler warning reduction.
- Improved checking for missing command line arguments.

https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt

[integrale]

unfortunatly updated from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4   aes avx CPU support is gone somewhere only sse2 shows up in  ( Mining with ) but on Pool´s Benchmark recognized as  AVX    ?

@ i7 2600

     BTC donation address: 12tdvfF7KmAsihBXQXynT6E6th2c2pByTT
     Forked from TPruvot's cpuminer-multi with credits
     to Lucas Jones, elmad, palmd, djm34, pooler, ig0tik3d,
     Wolf0, Jeff Garzik and Optiminer.

CPU:         Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
CPU features: SSE2 AES AVX
SW built on Feb  1 2017 with GCC 5.4.0
SW features: SSE2 AES AVX
Algo features: SSE2
Start mining with SSE2

[2017-02-01 04:37:35] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3555
[2017-02-01 04:37:35] 8 miner threads started, using 'timetravel' algorithm.
[2017-02-01 04:37:36] Stratum difficulty set to 0.125 (0.00049)
[2017-02-01 04:37:36] timetravel block 389200, diff 1.817
[2017-02-01 04:37:38] CPU #1: 65.54 kH, 63.51 kH/s
[2017-02-01 04:37:38] CPU #0: 65.54 kH, 63.41 kH/s
[2017-02-01 04:37:38] CPU #2: 65.54 kH, 63.56 kH/s
[2017-02-01 04:37:38] CPU #3: 65.54 kH, 63.59 kH/s

[joblo]

unfortunatly updated from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4   aes avx CPU support is gone somewhere only sse2 shows up in  ( Mining with ) but on Pool´s Benchmark recognized as  AVX    ?

@ i7 2600

     BTC donation address: 12tdvfF7KmAsihBXQXynT6E6th2c2pByTT
     Forked from TPruvot's cpuminer-multi with credits
     to Lucas Jones, elmad, palmd, djm34, pooler, ig0tik3d,
     Wolf0, Jeff Garzik and Optiminer.

CPU:         Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
CPU features: SSE2 AES AVX
SW built on Feb  1 2017 with GCC 5.4.0
SW features: SSE2 AES AVX
Algo features: SSE2
Start mining with SSE2

[2017-02-01 04:37:35] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://yiimp.ccminer.org:3555
[2017-02-01 04:37:35] 8 miner threads started, using 'timetravel' algorithm.
[2017-02-01 04:37:36] Stratum difficulty set to 0.125 (0.00049)
[2017-02-01 04:37:36] timetravel block 389200, diff 1.817
[2017-02-01 04:37:38] CPU #1: 65.54 kH, 63.51 kH/s
[2017-02-01 04:37:38] CPU #0: 65.54 kH, 63.41 kH/s
[2017-02-01 04:37:38] CPU #2: 65.54 kH, 63.56 kH/s
[2017-02-01 04:37:38] CPU #3: 65.54 kH, 63.59 kH/s

OK I know what's wrong. I had to reorder some things for the command line option checking and now the CPU capabilities
check is done before the algo is registered so it doesn't know the algo's features. Speed should be correct for your CPU,
I need to rework that.

Edit: fixed in git, will be included in final release.

[integrale]

yep , speed is correct and slightly increased

thx for fast response , good job done , great