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xigoi
on Aug 9, 2023
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Something that takes less than 20 minutes on grandma's old laptop will take less than a second on a powerful server.
littlestymaar
on Aug 9, 2023
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Not with memory-hard schemes, that's the point of it actually! And that's because you don't have a 1200x increase in
memory latency
between your grandma's laptop and a server, you barely have an order of magnitude in the most extreme scenario.
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