CUDA mining seems to be about as fast as OpenCL mining on CUDA (nVidia) hardware, but the difference is the unavoidable-at-nearly-any-aggression CPU usage - which is what keeps me from running it on my laptop, which brings the CPU to full roar (Turbo Boost) when I run a miner that gobbles 100% CPU. The laptop has Optimus, so mining CUDA at full speed doesn't affect my desktop responsiveness even one iota. I think using real CUDA would also enable the miner to be more efficient on the hardware, as many of the old miners were built on the premise of "OMG! It works! 3 million hashes a second, OMG!", and never got any love/attention when AMD GPUs started cranking out more like "OMG! 300 million hashes a second! I need new underwear!". I'm sure if we go back and dust the cobwebs off the old CUDA miner code, there could be a decent performance boost to be gained from tweaking a few lines and spending a few hours on it
As for a name, that's easy. "falcudami" - as in FALcon's CUDA MIner? Catchy, silly, or shut up and get with the code?