Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over 500K Zcoins

Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by lmm on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @08:28AM (#13810098)

> nobody who writes C# managed to produce a benchmark yet that beats a C++ program

No, but I've seen Haskell programs that were much faster than the C++ program they replaced, which is what matters in the real world.

Microbenchmarks measure what happens if you have the time to polish every single line to perfection. If you have infinite developer time then C++ will be faster than most languages. But infinite developer time is a negligible use case.

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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by igouy on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @11:43AM (#13811825)

Did the Haskell programs implement the same algorithm?

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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by lmm on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @11:45AM (#13811859)

It implemented the same business requirements. I don't know or care what algorithm was involved (indeed I wouldn't really say there was one).

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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by igouy on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @11:47AM (#13811887)

"Will your toy benchmark program be faster if you write it in a different programming language? It depends how you write it!" :-)

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