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Claude ac98036a8e perf(pow): mine NIP-13 proof of work on all cores and drop per-hash allocations
The miner enumerates the nonce space deterministically (the random base is
overwritten before the first hash), so naively racing N copies of the search
duplicates the exact same candidate sequence N times. PoWMiner.mine() now
races workers over disjoint slices instead: each worker's nonce carries a
distinct fixed prefix while only the bytes after it are enumerated, making the
aggregate hash rate scale with cores (~3.8x on a 4-core box).

The hot loop also switches from sha256() to sha256Into() with a reused
32-byte buffer, so hashing no longer allocates per attempt.

amy wiring:
- `pow mine` and `post --pow` mine on all cores by default; `pow mine
  --threads N` overrides.
- `pow bench` measures the all-cores rate (what mining now uses, also the
  basis for expected_seconds) alongside a new hashes_per_second_single_core.
- PoWEstimator benchmarks with sha256Into to match the miner, and gains a
  workers overload that prices in cross-core contention.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhaF5scnAvhP9wr9R7bTWM
2026-07-11 04:04:28 +00:00
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