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by tardedmeme 48 days ago
Because it's designed to be hard to execute on anything that is not a CPU.
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OsrsNeedsf2P 48 days ago
Right, but the program is generated by the miner. So the miner could just generate a program that has no branching, and run it on a GPU.
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tardedmeme 48 days ago
Each program is guaranteed to have a certain number of certain types of instructions, such as (IIRC) exactly one divide instruction.
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hyc_symas 47 days ago
Since the programs are randomly generated, there's no guarantee that any particular program always uses some number of any particular instruction. There's only a probability, X/256 instructions will be somesuch operation.
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