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Re:Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule ... by vlovich123 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @08:24AM (#19787253)
The problem appears to be sequential so how would SIMD help? Also what advances in squatting algorithms have there been specifically? None of the links you have provided appear relevant
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Re:Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule ... by eru on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @09:00AM (#19787473)
The numbers involved are quite large. They don't fit into a single computer word.

The problem is designed so that iterations have to be sequential, but a single iteration can use parallelism.

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