[r1ch]

The reference implementation is Python, so there's lots of room to optimize. I wonder if you can eventually build an ASIC that replaces the disk based lookup with in memory calculations of the same data.

[crazypython]

Can you send a link? I'd like to help.

[nessex]

Most of the work happens in C++[1]

[1] https://github.com/Chia-Network/chiapos