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That would also eliminate a lot of non-PC devices (phones etc.) as they tend to have poor GPU driver support for OpenCL/generic compute.

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The LMDB design document specifies that it requires a cache-coherent filesystem. Using writemap is the usual workaround though; it's also needed on OpenBSD for the same reason.

Agreed, this is a WSL bug. They've known about it for a long time already https://twitter.com/hyc_symas/status/1013800256088215552 It was working before Windows 10 update 1803, as documented here https://github.com/nimiq/core-js/issues/387

There is no fix for WSL1 other than to switch to WSL2.

For completeness' sake, I did the work to diagnose this bug and notified Microsoft about it https://twitter.com/hyc_symas/status/1013800256088215552

option 3 is just plain stupid, it would be a tremendous waste of CPU work. The rest are not much better. Never destroy something you are going to create again...

That clearly is for gzip compression support, not AES support.

Support for POWER AES instructions is already in the source, has been for years. https://github.com/tevador/RandomX/pull/41

Not in any measurable way, no.