Status as of Tuesday, April 14

Post by **Steve Sokolowski** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:06 am

Good morning!

Chris finally got the taxes done The only issue remaining is that he needs to formally "announce" the pool's launch in order for it to be registered as a business in Pennsylvania, so he will be calling some newspapers to pay for the minimum, extremely small advertisement that is legally required.
I made significant progress on the performance enhancements yesterday. I've said before that the reason why I hate Python is that indentation is used as a control structure. In this case, one of the reasons for the slowness is that a function that was supposed to be called once was indented just four spaces to the right, so that it was called once for each miner. Any language that wastes 40 hours because of such a stupid reason is a poorly designed language, and I would be rid of Python if it weren't for how so much of the community has written example code in Python.
I discovered a regression that occurred in the existing code. After 60s of not receiving any work, cgminer assumes that the server has disconnected and stops submitting shares, causing the miner to report the pool as "unstable." I fixed this bug in the latest release, so your miners won't disconnect as often.
I'm waiting on Chris to certify this release. Tentatively, we should be able to get it out tomorrow night or Thursday night.