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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by NKCSS on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @02:58AM (#13808945)
If they were properly written, I'd accept that, but just take a look at how vastly different things these two are doing:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes... http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by iopq on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @05:18AM (#13809413)
Nobody stops you from submitting a different version that's faster.
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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by igouy on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @11:50AM (#13811936)
Isn't that the usual explanation for why some program is faster than some other program? They do things differently.
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